David Grinspoon

Titan has rivers and lakes of liquid methane and ethane, methane weather systems of clouds and storms that mirror Earth's hydrologic cycle, and seasonal cycles that rival Earth's in complexity.

American Scientist

Roald Hoffmann

One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.

Polish Scientist

Remember, ethane is invisible and doesn't smell, making it hard to detect without instruments.

Colorless, Odorless

Ethane is primarily used for generating heat and electricity because it burns easily.

Fuel Usage

When discussing ethane, be aware that its chemical formula, C2H6, is often used in scientific contexts.

Chemical Formula

 as all of the Earth's rivers, lakes, seas and oceans combined. And at Titan, there are also exotic lakes and seas of liquid methane and ethane on the surface. Ocean worlds are some of the most fascinating places in the solar system, and we have only just begun to explore them.

What Saturn's most...

 flowing across the surface. It is very cold, however, too cold for liquid water, so these rivers may instead be flowing with liquid hydrocarbons such as methane and ethane. These are composed of hydrogen, and, more importantly, carbon, which is the basic building block

Why extremophiles bode...

 from the ground. From there, the fossil fuels are sent to refineries where they are converted into several products including the building blocks of plastic, ethane from crude oil and propane from natural gas.