Definitions for butane

butane bu·tane

Spelling: [byoo-teyn, byoo-teyn]
IPA: /ˈbyu teɪn, byuˈteɪn/

Butane is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in butane (abentu).

Definitions for butane

noun

  1. a colorless, flammable gas, C 4 H 10 , a saturated aliphatic existing in two isometric forms: used chiefly in the manufacture of rubber and as fuel.

Origin of butane

First recorded in 1870-75; but(yl) + -ane

Examples for butane

butane purchased at a hardware store often contains chemicals like benzene, which is known to cause cancer.

Now they heat and cook with butane or electricity which comes from Silver City.

Unable to afford electricity, butane, or propane, the students, like their neighbors, relied on wood for their cooking.

Recently, at a pot-centered radio program, someone offered me a “dab” of butane honey oil (BHO)—a concentrated form of cannabis.

Word Value for butane
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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