Usually means: Flammable hydrocarbon gas, four carbons.
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  1. butane: Merriam-Webster
  2. butane: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. butane: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. butane: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Butane, butane: Wordnik
  7. butane: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. butane: Wiktionary
  9. butane: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. butane: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. butane: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. butane: Dictionary.com
  13. butane: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Butane (data page), Butane: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Butane: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. butane: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. butane: Rhymezone
  18. Butane: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. butane: FreeDictionary.org
  20. butane: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. butane: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. butane: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. butane: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. butane: Medical dictionary

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  1. butane: Urban Dictionary

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (butane)

noun:  (organic chemistry) A hydrocarbon (either of the two isomers of C₄H₁₀ n-butane, and 2-methyl-propane) found in gaseous petroleum fractions.
noun:  (organic chemistry, uncountable) The n-butane isomer only.

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