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BUTANE

byooˈtān, C₄H₁₀, gaseous alkane, a hydrocarbon that is obtained from natural gas or by refining petroleum. It can be liquefied at room temperature by compression. There are two structural isomers of butane. In normal butane, or n-butane, the four carbon atoms are joined in a continuous, unbranched chain; in isobutane, or 2-methylpropane, three of the carbon atoms are joined to the fourth by single bonds, resulting in a branched structure. The two isomers differ in certain of their chemical and physical properties, e.g., liquid n-butane has a higher boiling point (−0.6 degrees Celsius) at atmospheric pressure than that of liquid isobutane (−10.2 degrees Celsius).

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Synthetic Rubber: A Project That Had to Succeed
Book by Vernon Herbert, Attilio Bisio; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects:	Rubber Industry And Trade--United States--History, Rubber, Artificial--History
...7.1 Types of Butadiene Plants Authorized 75 7.2 Additional Butadiene-from-Butane* Plants Authorized in Early 1942 79 7.3 Additional "Quick" Butadiene Plants Requested by...*

Industrial Complex Analysis and Regional Development: A Case Study of Refinery-Petrochemical-Synthetic-Fiber Complexes and Puerto Rico
Book by Walter Isard; Technology Press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959
Subjects:	Chemical industry--Puerto Rico, Industrial location--Case studies, Petroleum industry and trade--Puerto Rico

Technological Trends and National Policy: Including the Social Implications of New Inventions. June 1937
Book; U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937
Subjects:	Technology Assessment, Technology--Social Aspects--United States, Technology--United States

Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of College Chemistry
Book by Jerome L. Rosenberg, Lawrence M. Epstein, Peter J. Krieger; McGraw-Hill, 2007
Subjects:	Chemistry--Outlines, Syllabi, Etc, Chemistry--Problems, Exercises, Etc

The Basics of Chemistry
Book by Richard Myers; Greenwood Press, 2003
Subjects:	Chemistry

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journal articles on: Butane - 46 results

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Exchange Rate Sensitivity of U.S. Trade Flows: Evidence from Industry Data
Journal article by Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, Zohre Ardalani; Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 72, 2006
Subjects:	Exports, United States economic conditions--Forecasts and trends
...1.70) <br/ 30. Liquified propane/butane* -9.58 (1.97) 3.16 (2.50...2.13) <br/ 30. Liquified propane/butane -0.41 (0.43) -0.39 (5.52...br/ 30. Liquified propane/butane 0.19...*

Clearing the Air: A Model for Investigating Indoor Air Quality in Texas Schools
Journal article by Sharon A. Petronella, Rachel Thomas, James A. Stone, Randall M. Goldblum, Edward G. Brooks; Journal of Environmental Health, Vol. 67, 2005
Subjects:	Environmental health--Planning, Indoor air quality--Testing, Schools--Environmental aspects, Schools--Management, Schools--Texas
...0.006 0.014 Butane* 0.007 0.008 0.016 Butane, 2-methyl 0.003...056 2,500 250 500 750 Butane 8,000...*

Pricing Liquid Petroleum Gas in Mexico
Journal article by Dagobert L. Brito, William Laney Littlejohn, Juan Rosellon; Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 66, 2000
Subjects:	Liquefied petroleum gas industry--Prices and rates, Liquefied petroleum gas--Prices and rates, Mexico--Business and industry
...and throughout the Caribbean basin. LPG, butane, and propane, which include ethane, isobutane...marketable products, including propane and butane. Thus, to meet product demand in the area...April 1998; accepted July 1999. (1.) Butane imported to the U.S. is used as a feedstock...

Assessment of 1,3-Butadiene Exposure in Polymer Production Workers Using HPRT Mutations in Lymphocytes as a Biomarker
Journal article by Marinel M. Ammenheuser, William E. Bechtold, Sherif Z. Abdel-Rahman, Judah I. Rosenblatt, Darlene A. Hastings-Smith, Jonathan B. Ward Jr.; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 109, 2001
...concentration of the BD metabolite 1,2-dihydroxy-4-(N-acetylcysteinyl-S)-butane (M1) in urine as a biomarker of exposure and the frequency of...metabolite derived from EB 1,2-dihydroxy-4 -(N-acetylcysteiny 1-S-)-butane, called "M1." No increase was observed in chromosome aberrations...

International Trade in Natural Gas
Journal article by Alexander Melamid; The Geographical Review, Vol. 84, 1994
Subjects:	International trade--Research, Natural gas--International trade
...from liquefied petroleum gases, of which butane and propane are commercially the most...areas that lack other energy sources. Butane serves as a chemical feedstock in industrial...processes. Because the total quantities of butane and propane traded are relatively small...

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Hospital Fire Training Heats Up
Magazine article by Douglas A. Campbell; Security Management, Vol. 39, February 1995
Subjects:	Employee training--Methods, Fire prevention--Training, Hospitals--Safety and security measures
...Campbell Early one November evening in 1990, a patient in the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital emergency room pulled a butane lighter from his sock and ignited it. Fueled by the patients oxygen mask, the flame flared up, setting fire to his gown, and...

RMP Regulation Reduces Most Propane Rules
Magazine article by James L. Nash; Occupational Hazards, Vol. 61, October 1999
Subjects:	Liquefied natural gas industry--Laws, regulations and rules, Propane, Risk management--Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Environmental Protection Agency--Laws, regulations and rules
...Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) risk management program. Industry representatives argue that fuels such as propane and butane never should have been linked to toxic chemicals and their stringent regulatory requirements. Congress evidently agrees. Fear...

Seafloor Chemistry: Life's Building Blocks Made Inorganically
Magazine article by Sid Perkins; Science News, Vol. 173, February 2, 2008
Subjects:	Hydrothermal vents--Chemical properties, Hydrothermal vents--Environmental aspects, Hydrothermal vents--Thermal properties, Life--Origin, Life--Research, Origin of life--Research
...hydrocarbons such as methane, ethane, and butane. A number of clues suggests that those...found there could have produced the ethane, butane, or other organic compounds in the vents brew. Finding butane in the fluids is particularly important...

Good Lovin': Recasting the '70S Gay Sexual Revolution, beyond Shame Captures the Yearning of Young Gay Men for Those Good Bad Old Days
Magazine article by Austin Bunn; The Advocate, February 17, 2004
Subjects:	Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...stage ringed by curtained cabins. A large porcelain tub sat in a dark recess and a man lay motionless in it I sat outside at a butane-fueled bonfire and just listened. Two men in the bushes hook each other to great, almost comedic heights. Eventually I went...

LPG-The Fuel for Africa: The 20th Edition of the World Liquid Petroleum Gas Association's Forum Was Held in Cape Town, South Africa in October. There Could Have Hardly Been a More Appropriate City to Host This Annual Event, Reports Stephen Williams
Magazine article by Stephen Williams; New African, December 2007
Subjects:	Liquefied petroleum gas--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Liquefied petroleum gas--Influence, Liquefied petroleum gas--Usage, South Africa--Energy use
...a safe, affordable, convenient, and cleaner fuel for the continent. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED The gas itself, sometimes known as butane or propane, is mainly refined from conventional crude oil or natural gas, although it is also possible to use feedstocks such...

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DROWNED TEEN HIGH ON BUTANE; 19yr-Old Died after Cop Chase
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), November 11, 2008
Subjects:	Butane
DROWNED TEEN HIGH ON BUTANE; 19yr-Old Died after Cop Chase. Byline...with occupants that had been sniffing butane gas. The coroner said evidence would...teenager was intoxicated by two forms of butane gas in the same way he was by the alcohol...

Blow-Torch Maniac Had Taken Hash, Methadone, Heroin, Coke, Jellies and Butane Gas; Four Years and Six Months in Jail for Thug Who Terrorised Schoolgirls
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), June 21, 2008
Subjects:	Butane
...Maniac Had Taken Hash, Methadone, Heroin, Coke, Jellies and Butane Gas; Four Years and Six Months in Jail for Thug Who Terrorised...had taken diazepam, cocaine, hero i n, methadone, cannabis and butane gas. His lawyer stressed that no serious injury had been caused...

Gas Sniffing Killed Teen
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), March 19, 2007
Subjects:	Butane
...teenager died after sniffing eight cans of butane gas. Robert Hailes, 18, suffered a heart...young people to think twice about abusing butane gas and for shopkeepers to have a moral...told the inquest Robert used to sniff butane every day from cans he and friends bought...

Tragic Secret That Killed a Son
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), July 29, 2004
...and drugs saw him die alone clutching a butane gas cannister. But an inquest recorded...that his family had no knowledge of any butane habit, though the former Cymmer Comprehensive...said which caused us real hurt. The butane came as a complete shock though his fascination...

Men Hurt in Alleged Drug-Related Fire
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), September 12, 2006
...Register-Guard Two men allegedly using butane to extract hash oil from marijuana suffered...basement living room and canisters of liquid butane. The two men suffered severe burns to...Police believe the men were using liquid butane as a solvent to extract the psychoactive...

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Butane
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BUTANE byoo tan, C 4 H 10 , gaseous alkane , a hydrocarbon that is obtained from natural gas or by refining petroleum. It can be liquefied at room temperature by compression. There are two structural isomers of butane. In normal butane, or n -butane, the four carbon atoms are joined in a continuous, unbranched chain; in isobutane, or 2-methylpropane...

Isobutane
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ISOBUTANE i s byoo tan: see butane* . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.*

Propane, 2-Methyl
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PROPANE, 2-METHYL IUPAC name for isobutane (see butane* ). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.*

Liquefied Petroleum Gas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS or LPG, mixture of gases, chiefly propane and butane, produced commercially from petroleum and stored under pressure to keep it in a liquid state. The boiling point of liquefied petroleum...

Natural Gas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...component, methane , usually makes up from 80% to 95%, and the balance is composed of varying amounts of ethane , propane , butane , and other hydrocarbon compounds. Some of the hydrocarbons found in gasoline also occur as vapors in natural gas; by liquefying...

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