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What is the noun for butane?

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butane
  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) The n-butane isomer only.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He took his lighter from his pocket and flicked it, and touched the small steady butane flame to the wick of the candle.”
      “Without heating or electricity, they cook on butane stoves, warm themselves with paraffin heaters and use candles and lamps for lighting.”
      “Remember to heat epoxied screws with a hot screw driver, small heated metal rod, soldering iron, or butane lighter before attempting removal.”
butanethiol
  1. (organic chemistry) The thiol, derived from butane, that is the sulfur equivalent of butanol; it is partly responsible for the smell of skunk
butamben
butanol
  1. (organic chemistry) Any of four isomeric aliphatic alcohols, C4H9-OH
    1. butan-1-ol or n-butanol or butyl alcohol - CH3(CH2)3-OH
    2. butan-2-ol or sec-butanol - CH3CH2CH(CH3)-OH
    3. 2-methyl-propan-1-ol or iso-butanol - (CH3)2CHCH2-OH
    4. 1,1-dimethyl-ethanol or tert-butanol - (CH3)3C-OH
  2. Examples:
    1. “Recent work in our laboratory has explored the clustering behaviour of organic polar solvents such as methanol, 6 ethanol and butanol.”
      “It has been recently shown that fusel alcohols, notably butanol, induce filamentous growth in haploid cells on both solid and liquid media.”
      “Butyl acetate, butanol, hexyl acetate, and hexanol present in whole fruit were analysed by grinding 250 g of melon flesh in liquid nitrogen.”
butanediol
  1. (organic chemistry) Any of four isomeric diols derived from butane
butanethiols
  1. plural of butanethiol
butanediols
  1. plural of butanediol
butanols
  1. plural of butanol
butanes
  1. plural of butane
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