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Definition: Propane |
PropaneNoun1. Colorless gas found in natural gas and petroleum; used as a fuel. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "propane" was first used: 1866. (references) |
Note: Propane \Pro"pane\, noun. [Propyl methane.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Energy | A hydrocarbon gas, C3H8, occurring in crude oil, natural gas, and refinery cracking gas. It is used as a fuel, a solvent, and a refrigerant. Propane liquefies under pressure and is the major component of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). (references) |
| A gas that is both present in natural gas andrefined from crude oil. It is used for heating, lighting and industrial applications. See also LPG. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A three-carbon alkane, propane is sometimes derived from other petroleum products during oil or natural gas processing.
Formula: C3H8
When commonly sold as fuel, it is also known as liquifed petroleum gas (LPG or LP gas) and is a mixture of propane with smaller amounts of propylene, butane and butylene. It is used as fuel in cooking on many barbecues and portable stoves and in motor vehicles. Propane powers some buses, forklifts, and taxies and is used for heat and cooking in recreational vehicles and campers. In many rural areas of the US, propane is also used in furnaces, water heaters, laundry driers, and other heat-producing appliances. Delivery trucks fill up large tanks that are permanently installed on the property (sometimes called pigs) or exchange bottles of propane.
See also hydrocarbon, petrol or gasoline.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Propane."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fuel | Natural gas, synthetic gas, synthesis gas, propane, butane, hydrogen. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Propane |
| English words defined with "propane": bottled gas ♦ liquefied petroleum gas ♦ Propidene, propyl, propyl group, propyl radical. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "propane": burner, hand ♦ crude tester, cutter, gas ♦ flame gouger, FLAME-HARDENING-MACHINE SETTER ♦ gas analyst, GLASS-LINED TANK REPAIRER ♦ INSPECTOR-REPAIRER, SANDSTONE ♦ laboratory inspector, laboratory technician, laboratory tester ♦ natural gas liquid, NATURAL-GAS-TREATING-UNIT OPERATOR ♦ oil teste ♦ REPAIRER, RECREATIONAL VEHICLE ♦ Still gas ♦ tank refinisher, THERMAL CUTTER, HAND I, torch cutter. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Propane" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (propane), Manx (propane). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Goats in pen with herders home and propane tank in background. Credit: USDA. |
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Health | Sudden sniffing death is particularly associated with the abuse of butane, propane, and chemicals in aerosols. (references) | |
Business | Shedgum and Uthmaniyah treat a stream composed of ethane and NGLs while Berri, Abqaiq and Ras Tanura process propane and heavier NGLs. The fractionation plants split the liquid stream into ethane, propane, butane and natural gasoline. (references) | |
The ethane is sent to Jubail and Yanbu; the LPG is exported from Ras Tanura, Ju'aymah and Yanbu; the natural gas is exported from Ras Tanura and Yanbu; and the propane, butane and natural gasoline are used domestically as industrial feedstock. (references) | ||
Currently, the Mexican Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has plans to convert the existing President Juarez Power Plant in Rosarito, Baja California, to natural gas from oil. On the other hand, over 1,000 manufacturing plants and residents in Baja California rely primarily on propane and fuel oil for industrial boilers and cooking and will be the potential recipients of this service. (references) | ||
Economic History | Honduras | The GOH also reviews the prices of gasoline, diesel, and liquid propane gas. (references) |
El Salvador | Generally, there are no controls on prices in El Salvador, except for liquid propane gas and public transport. (references) | |
Argentina | Approximately 80 percent of materials handling equipment using internal combustion engines run on diesel fuel, the rest on CNG/LPG (Compressed Natural Gas - Propane), and almost none on gasoline. (references) | |
Political Economy | HONDURAS | The government also reviews the price of gasoline, diesel, and liquid propane gas, as well as the rates for public transportation and public utilities. (references) |
Trade | Barbados | Liquefied Propane 24.65 percent. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Propane" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Propane" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 48 | 49,194 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Cornerstone Propane Partners, L.P. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
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Beginning with "propane": propane-rich. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
propane | 680 | propane conversion | 45 |
propane tank | 470 | propane water heater | 45 |
propane heater | 227 | propane injection | 43 |
propane grill | 211 | propane furnace | 39 |
propane refrigerator | 169 | propane pool heater | 35 |
propane gas | 147 | portable propane grill | 34 |
suburban propane | 103 | propane gas tank | 34 |
price of propane | 103 | propane tank gauge | 31 |
propane torch | 84 | propane adapter | 30 |
propane stove | 83 | propane barbecue | 28 |
propane burner | 78 | propane gas price | 28 |
mosquito propane | 75 | msds propane | 27 |
propane superior | 69 | level propane | 26 |
mosquito trap propane | 67 | propane lantern | 26 |
propane cylinder | 59 | propane fridge | 26 |
propane generator | 59 | propane smoker | 25 |
propane fireplace | 52 | propane freezer | 25 |
propane regulator | 47 | propane detector | 25 |
propane gas grill | 46 | propane company | 24 |
propane appliance | 45 | propane safety | 23 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "propane"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пропан. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 丙烷. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | propan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | propaan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پارافین گازی ومشتعل هیدروکاربنی , پروپان . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | propaani. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | propane. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | propan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προπάνιο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | propán. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | propano. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | プロトン磁力計 (probability, professional, professor, profile, profiler, profit, propaganda, propagandist, propagation, propane gas, propeller, proper, property, propylene, proton magnetometer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | プロパン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "로판. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | propane. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opanepray propano. (various references) пропан пропановый, пропан. (various references) propan. (various references) propano. (various references) propan. (various references) propan. (various references) пропан. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | pro. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "propane": propanes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "propane": cyclopropane. (additional references) | |
Words containing "propane": cyclopropanes. (additional references) | |
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"Propane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: opopanax, Ponape, popano, Porana, prepone, proan, Probyne, propaine, propale, propanoic, propenes, proponer, proppa, proppen, Prosafe, prospone, protane, Provand, Puolanne, pyocanea. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Expression | Similar | Related | Narrower | Broader |
| Gases | Propane | |||
| Liquefied petroleum gas | Propane | |||
Source: the U.S. Library of Congress and various crossword puzzle references. | ||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "propane" (pronounced prō"pā'n) |
| 3 | -p ā' n | windowpane. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-o-p-p-r" | |
-1 letter: napper, rappen. | |
-2 letters: apron, arpen, nappe, opera, paeon, paper, pareo, prone. | |
-3 letters: aeon, aero, aper, earn, nape, neap, near, nope, open, pane, pare, pean, pear, peon, pepo, perp, pone, pope, pore, porn, prao, prep, proa, prop, rape, reap, repo, repp, roan, rope. | |
-4 letters: ane, ape, are, ear, eon, era, ern, nae, nap, nor, oar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-o-p-p-r" | |
+1 letter: propanes. | |
+2 letters: dognapper, notepaper, piperonal, pronephra, reappoint. | |
+3 letters: dognappers, notepapers, paperbound, piperonals, propellant, propionate, reappoints, unapproved. | |
+4 letters: apomorphine, apportioned, coappearing, nephropathy, overlapping, paperbounds, pilocarpine, plecopteran, pneumograph, preadopting, preparation, propellants, propionates, protoplanet, reappointed, reapportion, reapproving, superweapon, tryptophane. | |
+5 letters: anchorpeople, apomorphines, apperception, appreciation, apprehension, bipropellant, cyclopropane, doppelganger, hypnotherapy, lepidopteran, nephropathic, perceptional, perpetration, perpetuation, perspiration, phanerophyte, phonographer, pilocarpines, plecopterans, pneumographs, pornographer, preapproving, preoccupancy, preparations, preponderant, preponderate, propagandize, protoplanets, reappointing, reapportions, repopulating, repopulation, speakerphone, superweapons, tryptophanes. | |
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