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There are a lot of liquids which come out of natural gas without having to actually liquefy the natural gas itself. The gas you use in your home is dry gas which has been stripped of these liquids. Although I'm not completely familiar with the LNG process I believe it is dry gas which has already had all the liquids stripped from it and then is super-cooled to make it into a liquid too. It requires a much lower temperature to do so. It is another step after the removal of the natural gas liquids that creates LNG.

Natural gas liquids include butane, pentane, hexane, propane and a few other anes that I can't remember right now. These are stripped from the wet gas through a gas processing plant and sold separately and then the dry gas goes into pipelines and eventually to your home. Condensate is also considered a natural gas liquid but it requires no processing to get it. It is already a liquid at atmospheric pressure and temperatures. And then at the top of the hydrocarbon chain you have crude oil. What separates crude oil from condensate is its specific gravity as compared to crude oil. Condensate is almost as valuable as crude and can be refined into gasoline.

Bottom line is that just like water can be ice, liquid or gas there are lots of different hydrocarbons all of which can also take on different forms depending upon the pressure and temperature.