Ethane vs Null - What's the difference?
ethane | null |
(organic compound, uncountable) An aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6, gaseous at normal temperatures and pressures, being a constituent of natural gas.
(organic compound, countable) The same compound, subjected to modification by replacing one or more of the hydrogen atoms with other radicals.
* 1959 , A. F. Trotman-Dickenson, Free Radicals: An Introduction ,
* 1968 , Transactions of the Faraday Society , Volume 64,
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between ethane and null
is that ethane is ethane (aliphatic hydrocarbon, c2h6) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.ethane
English
(wikipedia ethane)Noun
(en-noun)- chlorinated ethanes'; halogenated ' ethanes
page 45,
- The dissociation constants for ethanes' in which the two halves of the molecule are different are not always close to the mean of the dissociation constants of the corresponding symmetrical ' ethanes .
page 1573,
- Analysis of the ethane fraction also revealed anomalous deuteration of the ethane, the ethanes' C2H5D, C2H4D2 and C2H3D3 being observed as well as C2H6. ' Ethanes with more than three D atoms were not detected.
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.