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Constituent of natural gas
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ethane
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a colorless odorless alkane gas used as fuel [syn: C2H6 ]
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This page provides supplementary chemical data on ethane .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1873, from ethyl + -ane , the appropriate suffix under Hofmann's system.
Usage examples of ethane.
Under the uniform orange glow which suffused everything, the lake's liquid ethane sat like a basinful of crude oil, thirty miles across.
The air seemed a little clearer here, in the middle of the lake, perhaps because of the constant dissolving and exsolving of gases from the ethane.
One plausible current conjecture is that Titan has an ocean—but an ocean of ethane and methane, rather like liquefied natural gas.