A colorless gas that catches fire easily and is used as fuel. It is found in gasoline, lighter fluid, and some aerosol sprays. Butane is also one of many harmful chemicals found in tobacco smoke.

  A straight-chain or branch-chain hydrocarbon extracted from natural gas or refinery gas streams, which is gaseous at standard temperature and pressure. It includes isobutane and normal butane and is [..]

paraffin hydrocarbon, 1875, from butyl, hydrocarbon from butyric acid, a product of fermentation found in rancid butter, from Latin butyrum (see butter (n.)) + chemical suffix -ane.

A normally gaseous straight-chain or branch-chain hydrocarbon extracted from natural gas or refinery gas streams. It includes normal butane and refinery-grade butane and is designated in ASTM specific [..]

hydrocarbon gas used as fuel.

gaseous hydrocarbon (C4

A member of the alkane group of Hydrocarbons

, or propane-butane mixtures which have been liquefied through pressure, mild refrigeration, or a combination of both. Usually a derivative of refinery operations but often stripped out of natural gas [..]

There will usually be some condensate and/or oil associated with the gas. More specifically, the term is also used to mean treated natural gas which is supplied to industrial, commercial and domestic [..]

A natural gas liquid, the chemical formula of which is C4H10, used primarily in crude oil and gasoline blending or in the production of iso-octane, an octane enhancer.

A type of natural gas.

(n) occurs in natural gas; used in the manufacture of rubber and fuels

A highly flammable, colourless gas, commonly used as a fuel in lighters and camp stoves. Butane is a poisonous gas, and can cause many negative and potentially lethal effects if used incorrectly.

Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry Butane: An unbranched alkane of molecular formula C4H10. Butane also refers collectively to the two C4H10 isomers: butane (also called n-butane) and methylpro [..]

A hydrocarbon substance consisting of molecules composed of four atoms of carbon and ten atoms of hydrogen, used primarily for blending in high-octane gasoline, for residential and commercial heating and in manufacture of chemicals and synthetic rubber.

byoo-teyn Either of two saturated hydrocarbons, or alkanes, with chemical formula. In both compounds carbon atoms are joined in an open chain.

  A hydrocarbon fraction; at ordinary atmospheric conditions, butane is a gas but it is easily liquefied; one of the most useful L.P.-gases; widely used household fuel.

a hydrocarbon consisting of four carbon atoms and ten hydrogen atoms. Normally a gas, but easily liquified for transport and storage; used in gasolines and for cooking and heating. See also LPG.

A hydrocarbon associated with petroleum. It is gaseous at ordinary atmospheric conditions.

Also called n-butane, it is the unbranched alkane with four carbon atoms, CH3

A normally gaseous, paraffinic hydrocarbon (C4H10) extracted from natural gas or refinery gas streams. It includes isobutane and normal butane, and is used primarily for blending into high-octane gasoline, for residential and commercial heating, and for industrial purposes, especially the manufacture of chemicals and synthetic rubber.

A hydrocarbon gas that is one of the ingredients in natural gas. Butane molecules consist of four carbon atoms and ten hydrogen atoms.

Four-carbon alkane, hydrocarbon used as a fuel for cooking and camping, chemical formula C4H10

Butanes are colourless, odourless, gaseous hydrocarbons. The compound in which the carbon atoms are linked in a straight chain is called normal butane, or n-butane; the branched-chain form is isobutane. Both occur in natural gas and in crude oil and are formed in large quantities in the refining of petroleum to produce gasoline.

(organic compound) A hydrocarbon (either of the two isomers of C₄H₁₀ n-butane, and 2-methyl-propane) found in gaseous petroleum fractions. (organic compound,uncountable) The [..]