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 (es) 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

Anagrams

• batune

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.