: a heavy flammable gaseous alkane C3H8 found in crude petroleum and natural gas and used especially as fuel and in chemical synthesis
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Also avoid adding to indoor air pollution through things such as burning candles, using gas, propane or wood-burning stoves or fireplaces, running vacuum cleaners or using aerosol sprays.
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Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2024
Pulley admitted setting the fire with a propane torch and was jailed on a felony charge of unlawfully causing a fire to wildland.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 5 July 2024
One of the main reasons for emissions reductions in the United States has been as a result of the shift from higher-emitting fuels to lower emitting ones like natural gas and propane.
—Julio Fuentes, Hartford Courant, 15 Apr. 2024
Dozens of people dressed in flame-resistant clothing—mustard-yellow shirts and pine-green pants—paused along a forest service road to adjust their hard hats, strap propane tanks onto their backs, and test the torches connected to them: long, thin metal rods with a stream of flaming gas at one end.
—Ferris Jabr, The Atlantic, 25 June 2024
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Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2024
Pulley admitted setting the fire with a propane torch and was jailed on a felony charge of unlawfully causing a fire to wildland.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 5 July 2024
One of the main reasons for emissions reductions in the United States has been as a result of the shift from higher-emitting fuels to lower emitting ones like natural gas and propane.
—Julio Fuentes, Hartford Courant, 15 Apr. 2024
Dozens of people dressed in flame-resistant clothing—mustard-yellow shirts and pine-green pants—paused along a forest service road to adjust their hard hats, strap propane tanks onto their backs, and test the torches connected to them: long, thin metal rods with a stream of flaming gas at one end.
—Ferris Jabr, The Atlantic, 25 June 2024
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propane
noun
pro·pane
ˈprō-ˌpān 
: a heavy flammable gas found in crude petroleum and natural gas and used especially as fuel and in the chemical industry
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propane
noun
pro·pane
ˈprō-ˌpān
: a heavy flammable gaseous alkane C3H8 found in crude petroleum and natural gas and used especially as fuel and in chemical synthesis
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