Hi everyone. Can anyone tell me the real difference between Propane and Butane?I have googled this and got a lot of chemistry and formulas. I want to know the real deal from real people.
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MBMorgan Thank you...Basically Butane is for warmer climates and Propane is for colder climates. I thought there was a whole bunch of difference in BTU's and stuff. Not the case. Basically One's boiling point is higher than the other. I got it!!
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I’m thinking they’re related.
The first pro "pane" and the second
"but" ane Means their a pane in the but. 😂🤣😂
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"One carbon atom on the chain" is the answer, but that's not funny among non-chemists. The previous practical answers are correct. Propane has three carbons and butane has four. The more carbons on the chain the more attracted the compound is to itself and the more likely it will exist as a liquid as opposed to being a gas. So for cooking purposes, propane is commonly used as well as natural gas, which is methane, and only has one carbon. Propane is easy to compress and store in tanks. The go to option when natural gas is not readily available.
I previously mentioned eight carbon atoms being the main ingredient in gasoline, and I stand corrected. Thank you Uncle Bob. Gasoline is a much more complex mixture of different types of carbon compounds than I made it sound, and I withdraw my using octane as a way to simplify the discussion about propane and butane.Last edited by mrteddyprincess; June 19, 2019, 02:20 PM.
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You were doing good until your comment about octane being "the good stuff in gasoline". Iso Octane is one of two reference fuels for rating anti-knock quality of a gasoline sample. BTW, not tryin' to bust yur chops, just that you were having fun with chemo-geeking so I thought I'd add to it.Last edited by Uncle Bob; June 19, 2019, 09:42 AM.
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MAPP gas no longer exists. The only company that made it quit making it a decade or so ago. What you see now - Map Pro (in the yellow cylinders) - is different and it only burns a couple hundred degrees F or so hotter than propane (something like 3500°F vs 3700°F). It's not worth the price premium (3X?)over the regular propane (blue cylinders). Back in the day, MAPP would burn at more than 5500°F or thereabouts.
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Size of the hole in the ground it leaves after the blast.
Porpane should be more regulated than it is considering the damage it can do both unlit and lit.
From my old propane forklift driving days its a lot dirtier burning than Butane.
Can cause pretty good cold burns comes out of the tank in the minus 100s so wear gloves, used to burn my hands if regulator didn't match up right or there was no o-ring.
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Still trying to figure out what the real ask is, are you using for cooking? Lighting? Others. I use both for lighting, one for occasionally sweating pipe and neither for cooking. Propane works great in cold weather, butane not so much unless you warm it first and if you dont keep it warm it cools really fast and back to not working well.
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