CHEMICAL INDEX Ethane

The 100 Most Important Chemical Compounds focuses on 100 compounds, but references several hundred compounds. Structures and formula for compounds other than the 100 are included in the entries and listed in the index. Repetition of information was kept to a minimum by including representative compounds or the simplest compound in a chemical family and highlighting chemical properties that distinguish chemical groups. For example, there are entries for methane, ethane, butane, and octane but other alkanes such as pentane, hexane, and heptane are not included. Most personal names in the book include years of birth and... 

Compounds that have common names are listed under their common as well as their chemical names, but the reference entries may be made under either. For example, styphnic acid has the chemical name 2,4, 6-trinitroresorcinol, but the index entries are under styphnic acid with a cross reference to Resorcinol, 2,4,6-trinitro-, see Styphnic acid. On the other hand, the well-known insecticide DDT is listed with a "see reference to its chemical name and the reference entries are under the latter, "Ethane, l,l,l-trichloro-2,2-bis (p-chlorophenyl). In general, it may be said to be the exception, not the rule, for the common name of a compound not to be listed. All names, common and chemical, are listed alphabetically. 

Since methane and ethane are chemically quite different from the rest of the hydrocarbons of the methane series, the process of their co-oxidation is considered separately. As a measure of the relative conversion of methane and ethane, it is convenient to use the ratio of the concentrations of these gases at the inlet (index 0) and outlet (index f) of the reactor ... 

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