How to Use ethane in a Sentence

ethane

noun

• Acetone decomposes when exposed to the ultraviolet light in sunlight to gasses like methane and ethane.
  — Lorraine Wilde, Treehugger, 23 Jan. 2023
• So, much of the ethane is stripped out of the gas before the methane is shipped.
  — Michael Corkery, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• The lakes on the icy moon are filled with liquid ethane and methane.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
• Those lakes and seas are filled with liquid methane and ethane.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 June 2020
• Those lakes and seas are filled with liquid methane and ethane.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 June 2020
• On Titan, that liquid would be methane and ethane, which rain from the sky there.
  — Nola Taylor Redd Space.com Contributor, Fox News, 13 June 2017
• Titan, too, was found to be covered in lakes and seas composed of methane and ethane.
  — Shannon Stirone, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
• But in this case, the liquid is not water, but rather liquid methane and ethane.
  — Dan Reisenfeld, Smithsonian, 24 Apr. 2017
• On Earth, life makes more methane and less of the gas ethane than non-living reactions do.
  — National Geographic, 7 June 2018
• He got paid to promote an ethane-methane deal in Uzbekistan.
  — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2019
• To me, that is more of an existential threat to (new ethane plants) than the basic economics of the oil price dropping.
  — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2020
• It's got no color or smell to it, and is 70-90 percent methane, with ethane, propane, butane, and pentane making up the rest.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2017
• The plant takes ethane, a natural-gas byproduct, and breaks apart its molecules, which are then used to make plastic.
  — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
• Those liquid seas aren’t made out of water, but out of methane, ethane and nitrogen.
  — John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2019
• The metallic grid is dipped in a solution containing cells, then flash-frozen in liquid ethane and stored in a cryo-chamber.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
• Titan has Earth-like liquid bodies on its surface, but its rivers, lakes and seas are made of liquid ethane and methane, which form clouds and cause rain from the sky.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Dec. 2022
• In order to get a good sample, Jia must flash-freeze proteins with liquid ethane so that they are suspended in a thin layer of ice.
  — Laura Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Sep. 2022
• This mesh is then plunged into liquid ethane, at a temperature of around -180°C.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• And flaring gas on the spot means drillers miss out on more valuable products that come out of the ground with it, such as ethane, propane and butane, which are often processed out later.
  — Rebecca Elliott, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018
• The Midwest is currently in the midst of a hydro-fracking boom, and half of the fracking wells in Pennsylvania produce ethane.
  — Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2023
• The only known moon with an atmosphere, Saturn’s largest moon has rain, lakes, oceans and ice comprised not of water, but of liquid ethane and methane.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• The surface of Titan is extremely varied, with rivers, lakes, and oceans of liquid methane and ethane etching the moon’s water-ice bedrock.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 27 June 2019
• Titan also has Earth-like liquid bodies on its surface, but the rivers, lakes and seas are made of liquid ethane and methane, which form clouds and cause liquid gas to rain from the sky.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Oct. 2017
• The two explorers brought many of Titan’s secrets to light, revealing a world whose lakes, rivers and canyons flowed with ethane and methane instead of water.
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
• Although Huygens could not have known it, his Titan, an orange ball of haze dotted with methane and ethane rivers and lakes, is quite planetlike.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2021
• Although margins could dip in the U.S., the region is still expected to be somewhat shielded from the worst of the downturn in the sector because of its access to lower cost ethane unleashed by the shale boom.
  — Marissa Luck, Houston Chronicle, 7 Aug. 2019
• It is filled with liquid hydrocarbons, such as ethane and methane, and is one of the many seas and lakes that bejewel Titan's north polar region.
  — Stav Ziv, Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2017
• Shell is setting up a sprawling complex in Appalachia to turn ethane, a byproduct of natural gas, into even more plastic.
  — Zoë Schlanger, Quartz, 28 June 2019
• The first of two pipelines, it is slated for completion by September, and will move natural gas liquids such as propane, ethane, and butane.
  — Jason Laughlin, Philly.com, 22 June 2017
• Titan’s surface is so cold — minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit — that any water there is frozen as hard as rock, although there are extensive lakes of methane and ethane.
  — NBC News, 23 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024