How to Use ethane in a Sentence

ethane

noun

• 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
• So, much of the ethane is stripped out of the gas before the methane is shipped.
  — Michael Corkery, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• But in this case, the liquid is not water, but rather liquid methane and ethane.
  — Dan Reisenfeld, Smithsonian, 24 Apr. 2017
• Titan, too, was found to be covered in lakes and seas composed of methane and ethane.
  — Shannon Stirone, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
• On Titan, that liquid would be methane and ethane, which rain from the sky there.
  — Nola Taylor Redd, Fox News, 13 June 2017
• Those liquid seas aren’t made out of water, but out of methane, ethane and nitrogen.
  — John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2019
• On Earth, life makes more methane and less of the gas ethane than non-living reactions do.
  — National Geographic, 7 June 2018
• 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
• It’s loaded with methane and ethane and all sorts of raw petroleum compounds.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• While turning ethylene to ethane is an old idea, no one has ever used uranium before.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Those plastic dunes could be used to construct surface-level habitats, and the ethane and methane lakes could power them.
  — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 8 Mar. 2026
• 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
• But most of the projects rely on consuming ethane, another natural gas liquid like propane.
  — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2017
• 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
• The ethane family, called alkanes, includes propane, methane, and paraffin.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2020
• The wet gas comprises chemicals such as butane, ethane, methane, and propane, all of which can serve as the foundation for finished goods.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• Instead, Luque and Zhang’s team spotted other molecules, like ethane, that could fit the same profile.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 6 June 2025
• 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
• 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
• Mueller said his company's propulsion system is based on a propellant mix of ethane and nitrous oxide, which is storable and cost-effective.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 July 2022
• Its output of liquids, including crude oil and natural-gas byproducts like ethane, was off 2% from a year earlier.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
• Titan comes with a thick atmosphere and is a distinctive world of clouds, rain, rivers, lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons like methane and ethane.
  — Leonard David, Space.com, 3 July 2026
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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