butane

chemical compound
ChemicalSubstance type_of_chemical_entity Q134192
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butane

Summary

butane is a type of chemical entity[1]. butane ranks in the top 2% of type_of_chemical_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (724 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • butane's instance of is recorded as type of chemical entity[3].
  • butane's chemical structure is recorded as Butan Skelett.svg[4].
  • butane's GND ID is recorded as 4435182-3[5].
  • butane's CAS Registry Number is recorded as 106-97-8[6].
  • butane's EC number is recorded as 203-448-7[7].
  • butane's canonical SMILES is recorded as CCCC[8].
  • butane's InChI is recorded as InChI=1S/C4H10/c1-3-4-2/h3-4H2,1-2H3[9].
  • butane's InChIKey is recorded as IJDNQMDRQITEOD-UHFFFAOYSA-N[10].
  • butane's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85018352[11].
  • butane's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11944370n[12].
  • butane's chemical formula is recorded as C₄H₁₀[13].
  • butane's subclass of is recorded as biogenic aliphatic hydrocarbon[14].
  • butane's subclass of is recorded as butane[15].
  • butane's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00575421[16].
  • butane's has use is recorded as refrigerant[17].
  • butane's has use is recorded as Q1875049[18].
  • butane's Commons category is recorded as Butane[19].
  • butane's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 31119[20].
  • butane's ChEMBL ID is recorded as CHEMBL134702[21].
  • butane's E number is recorded as E943a[22].
  • butane's PDB structure ID is recorded as 2BOS[23].
  • butane's PDB structure ID is recorded as 1KOU[24].
  • butane's PDB structure ID is recorded as 1QMS[25].
  • butane's PDB structure ID is recorded as 1BYH[26].
  • butane's PDB structure ID is recorded as 3U0P[27].

Why It Matters

butane ranks in the top 2% of type_of_chemical_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (724 views/month).[2] butane has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] butane is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Global Substance Registration System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Global Substance Registration System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . ashrae.org. Retrieved . ashrae.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . lebensmittellexikon.de. Retrieved . lebensmittellexikon.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . ChEMBL. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Protein Data Bank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Protein Data Bank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Protein Data Bank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Protein Data Bank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Protein Data Bank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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