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  • noun Plural form of butane.

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Examples

  • Liquefied Saturated Hydrocarbons Raid uses a mix of propylene, butanes, and butylenes as propellant.

    What's Inside Raid? Watch Out, Kitty! 2008

  • Liquefied Saturated Hydrocarbons Raid uses a mix of propylene, butanes, and butylenes as propellant.

    What's Inside Raid? Watch Out, Kitty! 2008

  • It makes a bottom product called reformate; butanes and lighter go overhead and are sent to the saturated gas plant.

    Cracking 2008

  • And again, I'm sorry, is that when you just referenced it as NGLs hedging, is that on ethane and propanes, butanes condensate?

    unknown title 2011

  • For example, refineries must remove certain gasoline components - such as butanes and pentanes - to further reduce gasoline RVP, as they do now for summer fuels to prevent gasoline vapors from escaping storage tanks and fuel lines during the ozone season.

    USATODAY.com Feed 2012

  • About 43% of our percent of liquids production has been hedged at NGL prices averaging between $1.25 and $1.30 with about half of those barrels being hedged being butanes and natural gasoline.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • US propylene contract prices poised for June plunge US oils, condensate and butanes into 50,000 to 55,000 barrels of

    WN.com - Articles related to Chevron Bars Rights, Environmental Advocates from Meeting 2010

  • So it can trade it that being the value of the propanes and butanes a bit before or even back to our $18 million, $19 million a year of incremental EBITDA.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • We're not buying butanes and we're not buying other feedstock's so it tends to be mostly crude at Cheyenne a lot more other feedstock's at El Dorado.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • -- The gas temperature and pressure for the values of Btu / ft LPG is marketed as propane or butanes or a mixture of propane and butanes.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

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