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There are several possible answers: * Natural gas is a mixture of hydrocarbons, mostly methane. * Propane is used instead of natural gas in areas where it does not make economic sense to install natural gas pipelines. * Butane is commonly used in camping stoves.

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13y ago

Hydrocarbons are one of the Earth's most important energy resources. The predominant use of hydrocarbons is as a combustible fuel source.

In their solid form, hydrocarbons take the form of asphalt.

Mixtures of volatile hydrocarbons are now used in preference to the chlorofluorocarbons as a propellant for aerosol sprays,

due to chlorofluorocarbon's impact on the ozone layer.

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15y ago

Natural gas is mostly methane. Bottled gas is either butane or propane, or a mixture of the two.

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Typically short chained hydrocarbons, like methane (CH4) through to longer chained like hexadecane (C16H34).

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8y ago

It's often called "natural gas," and it's a mixture of methane, ethane, butane, propane, and perhaps other naturally occurring hydrocarbon gases.

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The general term is "gas". The compound known as "natural gas" is mostly methane; "propane" is, as the name implies, mostly propane.

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they are used to make natural materials

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This is a fuel gas.

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12y ago

Propane.

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12y ago

Propane

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