BUTANE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Occurs in natural gas; used in the manufacture of rubber and fuels

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("butane" is a kind of...):

fuel (a substance that can be consumed to produce energy)

gas (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)

alkane; alkane series; methane series; paraffin; paraffin series (a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2))

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