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ChEBI Name	ethane

ChEBI ID	CHEBI:42266

Definition	An alkane comprising of two carbon atoms.

Stars	This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.

Secondary ChEBI IDs	CHEBI:42260, CHEBI:23975

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Formula

C2H6

Net Charge

Average Mass

30.06904

Monoisotopic Mass

30.04695

InChI

InChI=1S/C2H6/c1-2/h1-2H3

InChIKey

OTMSDBZUPAUEDD-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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Metabolite of Species	Details
Dunaliella salina (NCBI:txid3046)	See: PubMed

Roles Classification
Biological Role(s):	plant metabolite Any eukaryotic metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in plants, the kingdom that include flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms.

Application(s):	refrigerant A substance used in a thermodynamic heat pump cycle or refrigeration cycle that undergoes a phase change from a gas to a liquid and back. Refrigerants are used in air-conditioning systems and freezers or refrigerators and are assigned a "R" number (by ASHRAE - formerly the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers), which is determined systematically according to their molecular structure.

ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing	ethane (CHEBI:42266) has role plant metabolite (CHEBI:76924) ethane (CHEBI:42266) has role refrigerant (CHEBI:78433) ethane (CHEBI:42266) is a alkane (CHEBI:18310) ethane (CHEBI:42266) is a gas molecular entity (CHEBI:138675)

Incoming	chloroethanes (CHEBI:36016) has parent hydride ethane (CHEBI:42266) ethyl (CHEBI:62801) has parent hydride ethane (CHEBI:42266) ethylenediamine (CHEBI:30347) has parent hydride ethane (CHEBI:42266) iodoethane (CHEBI:42487) has parent hydride ethane (CHEBI:42266) ethyl group (CHEBI:37807) is substituent group from ethane (CHEBI:42266) ethylene group (CHEBI:29362) is substituent group from ethane (CHEBI:42266) ethylidene group (CHEBI:29853) is substituent group from ethane (CHEBI:42266)

IUPAC Name

ethane

Last Modified

20 November 2019