43 degrees Celsius, or 31 degrees Fahrenheit. 2 degrees Celsius, or 302 degrees Fahrenheit. It is not found in nature, it has to be manufactured. It is considered an oxidant, corrosive, and harmful. Making of rocket propellant in high concentration as a monopropellant or as the oxidizer component in a bipropellant rocket fuel. Controlling hydrogen cyanide in municipal sludge.

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You may have heard of it, but what does this compound do? Octane is a hydrocarbon. That does not occur naturally in nature. It is produced during the distillation of crude oil along with many other hydrocarbons. These Octane hydrocarbons are separated from the others using heat, because different hydrocarbons have different boiling points. Octane is a colorless liquid, and does not have a distinguishing appearance since it is almost always mixed with another compound making up gasoline.

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