Tetradecane

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

  Tetradecane \Tet`ra*dec"ane\, n. [Tetra- + Gr. ? ten.] (Chem.)
     A light oily hydrocarbon, {C14H30}, of the marsh-gas series;
     -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule.
     [1913 Webster]