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quartane

quartane noun: butane. Also the obsolete spelling of quartan.

Noun

quartane (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) butane

Also used as

quartane is also the obsolete spelling of quartan.

Origin of quartane

From Latin quartus (“fourth”) + -ane. Each molecule of butane has four carbon atoms.

See quartan.

Words formed from quartane

Questions about quartane

What does quartane mean?
Quartane means butane.
What part of speech is quartane?
Quartane is a noun.

Words near quartane in the dictionary

  1. quartal
  2. quartals
  3. quartan
  4. quartana
  5. quartanary
  6. quartane
  7. quartans
  8. Quartararo
  9. quartaries
  10. quartarii
  11. quartarius

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