Propane

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Propane \Pro"pane\, n. [Propyl + methane.] (Chem.)
     A heavy gaseous hydrocarbon, {C3H8}, of the paraffin series,
     occurring naturally dissolved in crude petroleum, and also
     made artificially; -- called also {propyl hydride}.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  propane
       n : colorless gas found in natural gas and petroleum; used as a
           fuel

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "propane":
     alcohol, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon, charcoal,
     coal, coke, combustible, dope, ethane, ethanol, fireball, firing,
     flammable, flammable material, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, gas,
     gas carbon, gasoline, heptane, hexane, inflammable,
     inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, kerosene, methane,
     methanol, natural gas, octane, oil, paraffin, peat, pentane,
     propellant, rocket fuel, turf