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the gas that fits a flamethrower into your pocket and calls it a lighter
means A flammable hydrocarbon gas (C₄H₁₀) easily compressed into a liquid, used as fuel in lighters, portable stoves, and aerosol cans.
from A chemist's compound word: 'but-' comes from 'butyric acid' (the sharp-smelling acid first found in rancid butter — from Latin 'butyrum,' butter), and '-ane' is the standard suffix for saturated hydrocarbons (the same '-ane' you hear in methane, propane, octane). So buried in this pocket flamethrower is a quiet nod to spoiled dairy.
- boils early
- becomes gas at minus one Celsius
- camp killer
- barely vaporizes in freezing cold weather
- four carbons
- its name simply means a four-link chain
- liquid trick
- squeezed to liquid, expands hugely as gas
- clean burn
- yields mostly water and carbon dioxide
zippo lighter fuel — zippo manufacturing company has sold refillable butane lighters since the 1980s
camping stove cartridges — coleman and primus sell threaded butane-propane blend cartridges for outdoor cooking worldwide
lighter refill aerosol — ronson butane spray cans dominate convenience stores for refilling pocket lighters