Ethane

• Formula: C₂H₆
• Molecular weight: 30.0690
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C2H6/c1-2/h1-2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: OTMSDBZUPAUEDD-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 74-84-0
• Chemical structure:
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• Species with the same structure:
  • 1-Ethenyl-1-methyl-2,4-bis-(1-methylethenyl)-1S-1α,2β,4α-cyclohexane
• Isotopologues:
  • pentadeuteroethane
  • Ethane-d1
• Other names: Bimethyl; Dimethyl; Ethyl hydride; Methylmethane; C2H6; UN 1035; UN 1961
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References

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Data compilation copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

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Jangkamolkulchai, A.; Luks, K.D., Partial miscibility behavior of the methane + ethane + n-docosane and the methane + ethane + n-tetradecylbenzene ternary mixtures, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1989, 34, 92. [all data]

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Brunner, 1987
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Younglove and Ely, 1987
Younglove, B.A.; Ely, J.F., Thermophysical Properties of Fluids II. Methane, Ethane, Propane, Isobutane, and Normal Butane, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1987, 16, 577. [all data]

Brunner, 1985
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Majer and Svoboda, 1985
Majer, V.; Svoboda, V., Enthalpies of Vaporization of Organic Compounds: A Critical Review and Data Compilation, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1985, 300. [all data]

Morrison and Kincaid, 1984
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Sychev, Vasserman, et al., 1982
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Morrison, 1981
Morrison, G., Effect of water on the critical points of carbon dioxide and ethane, J. Phys. Chem., 1981, 85, 759-61. [all data]

Bulavin and Shimanskii, 1979
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Burton and Balzarini, 1974
Burton, M.; Balzarini, D., Can. J. Phys., 1974, 52, 2011-3. [all data]

Strumpf, Collings, et al., 1974
Strumpf, H.J.; Collings, A.F.; Pings, C.J., Viscosity of Xenon and Ethane in the critical region, J. Chem. Phys., 1974, 60, 3109-23. [all data]

Douslin and Harrison, 1973
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Efremova and Shvarts, 1972
Efremova, G.D.; Shvarts, A.V., Higher-order Critical Phenomena in Ternary Systems. The Methanol-Carbon Dioxide-Ethane System, Russ. J. Phys. Chem. (Engl. Transl.), 1972, 46, 237-239. [all data]

Bulavin, Ostanevich, et al., 1971
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Khazanova and Sominskaya, 1971
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Miniovich and Sorina, 1971
Miniovich, V.M.; Sorina, G.A., P-V-T Relations for Ethane in the Vicinity of Its Critical Point of the critical point of ethane: I p-v-t relations for ethane in the vicintiy of its critical point, Russ. J. Phys. Chem. (Engl. Transl.), 1971, 45, 306-7. [all data]

Chashkin, Smirnov, et al., 1970
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Sliwinski, 1969
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Tsiklis and Prokhorov, 1967
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Khodeeva, 1966
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Kay, 1964
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Palmer, 1954
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Schmidt and Thomas, 1954
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Whiteway and Mason, 1953
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Kay and Nevens, 1952
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Notes

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  Tc	Critical temperature

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