Diethylene glycol ruwa ne mai tsabta mara launi, mara wari kuma barga mai mai. Hakanan yana da ɗan danko, mara lahani kuma mara canzawa. Saboda rukunin ether da barasa, diethylene glycol yana nuna halayen sinadarai na duka barasa na farko da ethers. Wurin tafasarsa ya fi na ethylene glycol sama da yawa, kuma kaushinsa ya fi girma. Diethylene glycol ba shi da haɗari tare da ruwa, ethers, ƙananan aliphatic alcohols, aldehydes da ketones kuma yana da wani sashi mai narkewa a cikin benzene, carbon tetrachloride, monobenzene, orthodichlorobenzene da toluene. Yana narkar da rini da yawa, resins, mai, nitrocellulose da abubuwa masu yawa. Saboda ƙarfin ƙarfinsa, ƙarancin ƙarfi da haɓaka, ana amfani da shi a cikin kayan shafawa na yadi, yankan mai, busassun sabulun tsaftacewa, tawadan buga tawada, saitin tawada, da tabon itacen da ba na hatsi ba. A cikin masana'antar yadi, ana amfani da diethylene glycol azaman wakili na sanyaya don ulu, rayon, da auduga. A matsayin sauran ƙarfi ga rini yana yin mataimaki mai mahimmanci a rini da bugu. Babban hygroscopicity na diethylene glycol ya sa ya zama ingantaccen wakili mai laushi don taba, takarda, soso na roba, manne da casein. Diethylene glycol yana da amfani musamman a cikin bushewar iskar gas. Cakudar diethylene glycol da monoethanolamine zai cire danshi, hydrogen sulfide da carbon dioxide daga iskar gas.