butane

butane

English

i-butane (2-methyl-propane)

n-butane

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjuːteɪn/

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Noun

butane (countable and uncountable, plural butanes)

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

Synonyms

• E943a (when used as a propellant)

Derived terms

• bromobutane
• butanediol
• butanethiol
• chlorobutane
• cyclobutane
• iodobutane
• isobutane
• n-butane

 

Related terms

• alkane
• ethane
• methane
• pentane
• propane

Translations

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) Mongolian: please add this translation if you can 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 m Swedish: butan (sv) Tagalog: pattan Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: bütan (tr) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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• batune

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /by.tan/

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Noun

butane m (plural butanes)

1. butane
2. n-butane Synonym of n-butane

   Synonym: n-butane

Derived terms

• cyclobutane
• isobutane
• n-butane

Further reading

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