butane

English Thesaurus

1. occurs in natural gas; used in the manufacture of rubber and fuels (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	fuel,
definition	:	a substance that can be consumed to produce energy (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	gas,
definition	:	a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	alkane, alkane series, methane series, paraffin, paraffin series,
definition	:	a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2) (noun.substance)