ethane
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eɪn noun Chemistry.
a colorless, odorless, flammable gas, C 2 H 6 , of the methane series, present in natural gas, illuminating gas, and crude petroleum: used chiefly in organic synthesis and as a fuel gas.
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| a colourless odourless flammable gaseous alkane obtained from natural gas and petroleum: used as a fuel and in the manufacture of organic chemicals. Formula: C2H6 | |
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| ethane (ěth'ān') Pronunciation Key
A colorless, odorless, flammable gas occurring in natural gas. It is used as a fuel and in refrigeration. Ethane is the second member of the alkane series. Chemical formula: C2H6. |
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ethane
a colourless, odourless, gaseous hydrocarbon (compound of hydrogen and carbon), belonging to the paraffin series; its chemical formula is C2H6. Ethane is structurally the simplest hydrocarbon that contains a single carbon-carbon bond. The second most important constituent of natural gas, it also occurs dissolved in petroleum oils and as a by-product of oil refinery operations and of the carbonization of coal.
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Example sentences
Natural gas is primarily composed of methane, but contains ethane, propane and butane as well.
The inner envelope holds helium in the head section of the blimp and an ethane fuel gas in the three tail sections.
The technology might one day wring more diesel fuel and ethane gas from hydrocarbon byproducts produced by oil refineries.
The trouble is that the ethane route to making ethylene produces virtually no propylene.
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