Organic compounds found at home and their uses Answer: Methane 》Black in colour, used in making motor tyres and printing ink, production of light and energy, making methyl alcohol, formaldehyde and chloroform etc. Butane 》In its liquid state, it is used as LPG fuel. Ethylene 》It is used in fruit ripening and fruits preservation, mustard gas, and in the form of anaesthesia, in oxy-ethylene flame. Acetylene 》In producing light, oxy-ethylene flame, in the form of Marcelin anaesthesia, in making neoprene (artificial rubber), in artificial ripening etc. Polythene 》It is used for producing electrical resistance in wires and cables, in making layers in the cap of the bottle in the production of non-crackable bottles, pipes, buckets etc. Polystyrene 》Is used for the production of caps of bottles of acid, in making the body of the accumulator cells etc. Ethyl bromine 》It is for making local anaesthesia. Chloroform 》In surgical oper...