Hexadecane definition

Hexadecane





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

  Hexadecane \Hex"a*dec`ane\, n. (Chem.)
     See {Hecdecane}.
     [1913 Webster]

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



  Hecdecane \Hec"de*cane\, n. [Gr. ? six + ? ten.] (Chem.)
     A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, {C16H34}, of
     the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important
     ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule
     has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also {hexadecane}.
     [1913 Webster]

















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