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_i_-butane (2-methyl-propane)

_n_-butane

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.

• IPA(key): /ˈbjuːteɪn/
• Rhymes: -uːteɪn

butane (countable and uncountable, plural butanes)

1. (organic chemistry) A hydrocarbon (either of the two isomers of C4H10, _n_-butane and 2-methylpropane) found in gaseous petroleum fractions.
2. (organic chemistry, uncountable) The _n_-butane isomer only.

• E943a (when used as a propellant)

• bromobutane

• butanediol

• butanedione

• butanethiol

• butanoic

• butanol

• butyl

• chlorobutane

• cyclobutane

• dibromobutane

• dichlorobutane

• iodobutane

• isobutane

• _n_-butane

• alkane

• ethane

• methane

• pentane

• propane

the organic compound

• Afrikaans: butaan (af)

• Armenian: բուտան (hy) (butan)

• 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
  Latin: bùtān (sh) m

• Slovene: bután (sl) m

• Spanish: butano (es) m

• Swahili: butani (sw)

• Swedish: butan (sv)

• Tagalog: pattan

• Thai: บิวเทน (th) (biu-teen)

• Turkish: bütan (tr)

• Vietnamese: butan

• batune

• IPA(key): /by.tan/

butane m (plural butanes)

1. butane
2. _n_-butane
   Synonym: _n_-butane

• cyclobutane
• isobutane
• _n_-butane
• “butane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012