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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a colorless odorless alkane gas used as fuel;
[syn: ethane, C2H6]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

ethane \eth"ane\ ([e^]th"[=a]n), n. [From Ether.] (Chem.) A gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H6, forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. It is the second member of the paraffin series, and its most important derivatives are common alcohol (ethyl alcohol), acetaldehyde, ether, and acetic acid. Called also dimethyl. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ethane n 1: a colorless odorless alkane gas used as fuel [syn: ethane, C2H6]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

39 Moby Thesaurus words for "ethane": alcohol, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon, charcoal, coal, coke, combustible, dope, ethanol, fireball, firing, flammable, flammable material, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, heptane, hexane, inflammable, inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, kerosene, methane, methanol, natural gas, octane, oil, paraffin, peat, pentane, rocket fuel, turf