What is Butane?
{{Chembox | Watchedfields = changed | verifiedrevid = 464365466 | ImageFileL1 = Butane simple.svg | ImageFileL1_Ref = {{chemboximage|correct|??}} | ImageSizeL1 = 110 | ImageAltL1 = Skeletal formula of butane with all implicit hydrogens shown | ImageFileR1 = Butan Lewis.svg | ImageFileR1_Ref = {{chemboximage|correct|??}} | ImageSizeR1 = 120 | ImageAltR1 = Skeletal formula of butane with all carbon and hydrogen atoms shown | ImageFileL2 = Butane-3D-balls.png | ImageFileL2_Ref = {{chemboximage|correct|??}} | ImageSizeL2 = 120 | ImageAltL2 = Ball-and-stick model of the butane molecule | ImageFileR2 = Butane-3D-space-filling.png | ImageFileR2_Ref = {{chemboximage|correct|??}} | ImageSizeR2 = 120 | ImageAltR2 = Space-filling model of the butane molecule | PIN = Butane<ref name=iupac2013>{{cite book | title = Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry : IUPAC Recommendations and Preferred Names 2013 (Blue Book) | publisher = [[Royal Society of Chemistry|The Royal Society of Chemistry]] | date = 2014 | location = Cambridge | page = 4 | doi = 10.1039/9781849733069-FP001 | isbn = 978-0-85404-182-4 | quote = Similarly, the retained names ‘ethane’, ‘propane’, and ‘butane’ were never replaced by systematic names ‘dicarbane’, ‘tricarbane’, and ‘tetracarbane’ as recommended for analogues of silane, ‘disilane’; phosphane, ‘triphosphane’; and sulfane, ‘tetrasulfane’.| chapter = Front Matter }}</ref> | SystematicName = Tetracarbane (never recommended<ref name=iupac2013 />) | OtherNames = Butyl hydride<ref name=PGCH/><br>Quartane<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://rspl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/15/54|title=I. On the action of trichloride of phosphorus on the salts of the aromatic monamines|first=August Wilhelm Von|last=Hofmann|date=1 January 1867|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London|volume=15|pages=54–62|accessdate=20 September 2018|via=rspl.royalsocietypublishing.org|doi=10.1098/rspl.1866.0018|s2cid=98496840}}</ref> |Section1={{Chembox Identifiers | CASNo = 106-97-8 | CASNo_Ref = {{cascite|correct|CAS}} | PubChem = 7843