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Although it originally was called Methane and apparently was meant to be methane, both the 'heavier than air' and 'orange colored' properties go better with natural gas being butane for me. Also, we can always conclude that it's just another of the ONI's specific elements.

Hydrogen, oxygen and chlorine all use the molar mass of a single atom in the game even though they actually appear as molecules with two atoms in real life. For this reason, they all only weigh approximately half as much as they're supposed to in the game (I haven't checked this myself in the files because I don't know how to, but other people have and it makes perfect sense if you look at how they behave in the game. I'm not certain if the real life values below are exactly the ones used in the game, but I'm assuming they are).
Oxygen has a molar mass of 15,9 in the game as opposed to the 31,9 that it's supposed to have which makes it lighter than natural gas, which has a molar mass of 16 (it's referred to as CH4 in the game so it's safe to assume that it has the molar mass of methane).
Chlorine has a molar mass of 35,5 instead of 70,9 which makes it lighter than CO2 (44).
Hydrogen is negligible because it just has a molar mass of 1 instead of 2.
So in short, oxygen is currently lighter than natural gas and chlorine is currently lighter than carbon dioxide, both of which shouldn't be the case and is caused by the wrong molar masses of the former. I'm assuming it was a mistake that the devs made early on during development and while it's been in the game since the beginning, I'm hoping that it will be fixed one day.

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