BUTANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does butane mean? 

• BUTANE (noun)
  The noun BUTANE has 1 sense:

1. occurs in natural gas; used in the manufacture of rubber and fuels

  Familiarity information: BUTANE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUTANE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

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))

 Context examples 

Butane is also one of many harmful chemicals found in tobacco smoke.

(Butane, NCI Dictionary)