↑International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (2014)။ Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry: IUPAC Recommendations and Preferred Names 2013။ The Royal Society of Chemistry။ p. 133။ doi:10.1039/9781849733069။ ISBN978-0-85404-182-4။ The saturated unbranched acyclic hydrocarbons C2H6, C3H8, and C4H10 have the retained names ethane, propane, and butane, respectively.
↑IUPAC 2014, p. 4. "Similarly, the retained names 'ethane', 'propane', and 'butane' were never replaced by systematic names 'dicarbane', 'tricarbane', and 'tetracarbane' as recommended for analogues of silane, 'disilane'; phosphane, 'triphosphane'; and sulfane, 'tetrasulfane'."
↑Ethane – Compound Summary။ PubChem Compound။ National Center for Biotechnology Information (16 September 2004)။ 7 December 2011 တွင် ပြန်စစ်ပြီး။
↑Lide, D. R., ed. (2005)။ CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (86th ed.)။ Boca Raton (FL): CRC Press။ p. 8.88။ ISBN0-8493-0486-5။