Pasika: Propane yakawanikwa neFrench chemist Marcellin Berthelot muna 1857. Yakawanikwa yakanyungudutswa muPennsylvanian light crude oil naEdmund Ronalds muna 1864. Walter O. Snelling weU.S. Bureau of Mines akaisimbisa sechinhu chinoputika mupeturu muna 1910, iyo yaive kutanga kweindasitiri yepropane muUnited States. Kusagadzikana kweaya ma hydrocarbon akareruka kwakaita kuti vazivikanwe se "chikara" nekuda kwekumanikidza kwakanyanya kwemhepo yegesi isina kuchena. Musi waMarch 31, 1912, The New York Times yakashuma nezvebasa raSnelling negasi rakanyoroveswa, ichiti "bhodhoro resimbi rinotakura gasi rakaringana kuvhenekera imba yakajairika kwemavhiki matatu".Panguva iyi Snelling, mukubatana naFrank P. Peterson, Chester Kerr, naArthur Kerr, vakawana yakanyungudutswa mupeturu yakapusa yePennsylvanian naEdmund Ronalds muna 1864.
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