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Ethane, a colourless, odourless, gaseous hydrocarbon (compound of hydrogen and carbon), belonging to the paraffin series; its chemical formula is C2H6. Ethane is structurally the simplest hydrocarbon that contains a single carbonâcarbon bond. The second most important constituent of natural gas, it also occurs dissolved in petroleum oils and as a by-product of oil refinery operations and of the carbonization of coal. zoom_in.
Ethane is a compound formed from the elements hydrogen and carbon, whose atoms may be drawn as follows: A molecule of ethane results when two carbon atoms and six hydrogen atoms join together in the configuration shown below as by sharing electrons, as described in the text (below the diagram).