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Webster 1913 Edition

Butane

Bu′tane

(bū′tān)

,

Noun.

[L.

but

yrum butter. See

.]

(Chem.)

An inflammable gaseous saturated hydrocarbon,

C4H10

, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.

Definition 2024

butane

butane

English

i-butane (2-methyl-propane)

n-butane

Noun

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

E943a (when used as a propellant)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

the organic compound

Afrikaans: butaan
Armenian:
Azeri: butan
Bulgarian: бутан (bg) m ‎(butan)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 丁烷 (zh) ‎(dīngwán)
Czech: butan (cs) m
Esperanto: butano
Finnish: butaani (fi)
French: butane (fr) m
Galician: butano (gl) m
Georgian:
German: Butan (de) n
Hungarian: bután (hu)
Icelandic: bútan n
Italian: butano (it) m
Japanese: ブタン ‎(butan)
Kazakh: бутан ‎(bwtan)
Khmer: ឧស្ម័នបូតាន ‎(usman bootaan)

Mongolian:
Navajo: kǫʼ dootłʼizhí
Norwegian:

Bokmål: butan (no) m, n

Nynorsk: butan m, 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:
Turkish: bütan (tr)
Vietnamese:

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