: a colorless odorless gaseous alkane C2H6 found in natural gas and used as a fuel
Examples of ethane in a Sentence
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Titan’s atmosphere also allows the surface to host rivers, lakes and oceans — all containing liquid methane and ethane.—Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024 The researchers also found evidence of several other organic compounds, including acetylene, propene and ethane, which also signal the moon’s potential to support life.—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023 Workers exposed to methane, ethane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide or other hydrocarbon components from drilling and refining can experience respiratory problems, headaches, dizziness and insomnia.—Sarah Martin, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023 At the peak in late 2014 and early 2015, Gulf Coast margins for ethylene, a bellwether chemical in U.S. plastics manufacturing, averaged $558 a metric ton, and companies were racing to build petrochemical facilities known as crackers that take the gas byproduct ethane and turn it into ethylene.—Collin Eaton and Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020 In one instance, Aguilar allegedly paid about $600,000 in bribes for a contract to supply ethane to PEMEX through PPI.—Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023 Life could flourish in half-frozen slush on Europa and Enceladus, within the subsurface saltwater ocean of Ganymede, underneath the methane and ethane rivers of Titan, and maybe in brines in the deepest craters of the dwarf planets Ceres and Pluto.—Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023 Acetone decomposes when exposed to the ultraviolet light in sunlight to gasses like methane and ethane.—Lorraine Wilde, Treehugger, 23 Jan. 2023 Titan also has dense clouds of hydrocarbons that burst with rain, plus a liquid-rich landscape of rivers, lakes, and ocean of liquid hydrocarbons including methane and ethane below the icy crust.—John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2022
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