pentane

pentane

English

Noun

pentane (plural pentanes)

1. (organic chemistry) An aliphatic hydrocarbon of chemical formula C₅H₁₂; either of the three isomers n-pentane, methyl-butane (isopentane), and di-methyl-propane (neopentane); volatile liquids under normal conditions.

Derived terms

• cyclopentane
• isopentane
• neopentane
• n-pentane
• oxapentane
• pentanediol
• pentanedithiol
• pentyl
• silapentane
• trimethylpentane

 

Translations

aliphatic hydrocarbon: C₅H₁₂

Afrikaans: pentaan Armenian: պենտան (pentan) Azerbaijani: pentan Catalan: pentà m Chinese: Mandarin: 戊烷 (zh) (wùwán) Dutch: pentaan (nl) n Esperanto: pentano Finnish: pentaani (fi) French: pentane (fr) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Pentan (de) n Greek: πεντάνιο (el) n (pentánio) Hungarian: pentán Indonesian: pentana (id) Italian: pentano (it) m Japanese: ペンタン (pentan) Kazakh: пентан (pentan) Korean: 펜테인 (pentein) Latvian: pentāns m Malay: pentana Maori: pēwaro Norwegian: Bokmål: pentan (no) n Nynorsk: pentan n Portuguese: pentano m Russian: пента́н (ru) m (pentán) Spanish: pentano m Swedish: pentan (sv) n Tamil: பென்ட்டேன் (peṉṭṭēṉ) Thai: เพนเทน (payntayn) Turkish: pentan (tr)

Anagrams

• pennate

---

French

Etymology

From penta- (“five”) +‎ -ane.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛ̃.tan/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

pentane m (plural pentanes)

1. pentane

Further reading

• “pentane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.