C24H50

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tetrakosane \Tet"ra*ko*sane`\, n. [Tetra- + Gr. ? twenty.]
     (Chem.)
     A hydrocarbon, {C24H50}, resembling paraffin, and like it
     belonging to the marsh-gas series; -- so called from having
     twenty-four atoms of carbon in the molecule.
     [1913 Webster]