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
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• German: Pentan (de) n
• Greek: πεντάνιο (el) n (pentánio)
• Hungarian: pentán (hu)
• 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/

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Noun

pentane m (plural pentanes)

1. pentane

Further reading

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