butane

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butane

i-butane (2-methyl-propane)

n-butane

Etymology edit

IUPAC nomenclature, from but- (“four carbon prefix”) + -ane (“alkane suffix”), the former is derived from the same stem as the foul-smelling carboxylic acid liberated in rancid butter, "butyric acid", hence cognate with butter.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈbjuːteɪn/
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Noun edit

butane (countable and uncountable, plural butanes)

(organic chemistry) A hydrocarbon (either of the two isomers of C₄H₁₀ n-butane, and 2-methyl-propane) found in gaseous petroleum fractions.
(organic chemistry, uncountable) The n-butane isomer only.

Synonyms edit

E943a (when used as a propellant)

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Translations edit

the organic compound

Afrikaans: butaan
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: butan
Bulgarian: бутан (bg) m (butan)
Catalan: butà m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 丁烷 (zh) (dīngwán)
Czech: butan (cs) m
Esperanto: butano (eo)
Finnish: butaani (fi)
French: butane (fr) m
Galician: butano (gl) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Butan (de) n
Greek: βουτάνιο (el) n (voutánio)
Hungarian: bután (hu)
Icelandic: bútan n
Indonesian: butana (id)
Italian: butano (it) m
Japanese: ブタン (ja) (butan)
Kazakh: бутан (butan)
Khmer: ប៊ុយតាន (buytaan)
Korean: 뷰테인 (byutein), 부탄 (ko) (butan)
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Navajo: kǫʼ dootłʼizhí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: butan (no) m or n

Nynorsk: butan m or n
Polish: butan (pl) m
Portuguese: butano (pt) m
Romanian: butan (ro)
Russian: бута́н (ru) m (bután)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бу̀та̄н m

Roman: bùtān (sh) m
Slovene: bután (sl) m
Spanish: butano (es) m
Swedish: butan (sv)
Tagalog: pattan
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