Cassini first confirmed the presence of liquid ethane in a lake called Ontario Lacus, in Titan’s southern hemisphere, during its 2008 flyby of the Saturnian moon.
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Ethane
//ˈɛθeɪn//
Synonyms for "ethane" (46 found)
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33 translations across 31 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- etan noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Belarusian
1 entries- эта́н noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ета́н noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Catalan
1 entries- età noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 乙烷 noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Czech
1 entries- etan noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Dutch
1 entries- ethaan noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Esperanto
1 entries- etano noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Finnish
1 entries- etaani noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
French
1 entries- éthane noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
German
2 entries- Ethan noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
- Äthan noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Greek
1 entries- αιθάνιο noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Hungarian
1 entries- etán noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Indonesian
1 entries- etana noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Irish
1 entries- eatán noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Italian
1 entries- etano noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Japanese
1 entries- エタン noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Kazakh
1 entries- этан noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Korean
2 entries- 에탄 noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
- 에테인 noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Lithuanian
1 entries- etanas noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Norwegian
1 entries- etan noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Persian
1 entries- اتان noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Polish
1 entries- etan noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Portuguese
1 entries- etano noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Romanian
1 entries- etan noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Russian
1 entries- эта́н noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Spanish
1 entries- etano noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Swedish
1 entries- etan noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Tagalog
1 entries- daltan noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Turkish
1 entries- etan noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ета́н noun (aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6)
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chlorinated ethanes; halogenated ethanes
Source: wiktionary
The dissociation constants for ethanes in which the two halves of the molecule are different are not always close to the mean of the dissociation constants of the corresponding symmetrical ethanes.
Source: wiktionary
Analysis of the ethane fraction also revealed anomalous deuteration of the ethane, the ethanes C₂H₅D, C₂H₄D₂ and C₂H₃D₃ being observed as well as C₂H₆. Ethanes with more than three D atoms were not detected.
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