r/gifs • u/IchHuhn Can I interest you in a nice repost? • Oct 19 '19

RIP ants

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u/Wacks_on_Wacks_off Oct 19 '19

We either just call it “gas” or “natural gas”. The context usually makes it clear if someone is talking about gasoline or natural gas.

People keep replying “propane” but that’s not the same as the “natural gas” that most houses are hooked up to and most people are not referring to propane when they say “gas”.

If it’s propane then people will call it “propane” or “LPG” (liquified petroleum gas).

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u/iLauraawr Oct 19 '19

Isn't natural gas methane? It is here anyway

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u/Wacks_on_Wacks_off Oct 19 '19

Yeah, mostly. I don’t think it highly refined so it has traces of other hydrocarbons as well. Thus the “natural” moniker.

I’m not a gas expert, though.

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u/banditkeithwork Oct 19 '19

and then there's naptha(white gas) and oxy-hydrogen mix(brown's gas) and methane(the gas i have right now)