Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any member of the alkane series.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hydrocarbon, CnH2n+2, of the marsh-gas or methane series: official name.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) a non-aromatic saturated acyclic hydrocarbon with the general formula CnH(2n+2). A member of the
alkane series .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry Any of saturated
hydrocarbons includingmethane ,ethane and compounds with long carbon chain known asparaffins etc., having a chemical formula of the form CnH2n+2.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Further, officials continue to refuse to admit/discuss the impacts of methane and other alkane gases that were also emitted from the wellhead.
Georgianne Nienaber: Where's the Oil? Here, There, and Everywhere 2010
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Further, officials continue to refuse to admit/discuss the impacts of methane and other alkane gases that were also emitted from the wellhead.
Georgianne Nienaber: Where's the Oil? Here, There, and Everywhere 2010
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Contains an alkane that is the major product of the red-banded stinkbug's scent gland?
Wired Top Stories 2009
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One of the many byproducts of our Petroleum reservoir is paraffin wax, an alkane with dozens of handy uses in your day to day life!
Archive 2007-11-01 Dennis 2007
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One of the many byproducts of our Petroleum reservoir is paraffin wax, an alkane with dozens of handy uses in your day to day life!
Tagruato Voicemail Message Update Dennis 2007
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Methane is an alkane and Methane is a gas at room temperature.
Archive 2007-09-01 Egon Willighagen 2007
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Methane is an alkane and Methane is a gas at room temperature.
Tagging Molecules: a mashup of Connotea and RDF Egon Willighagen 2007
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Melt these together over a slow fire, mixing with them a little powder of alkane root to color it.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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Octane is a hydrocarbon and a organic compound with an alkane family.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Hanna.kim 2010
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This discovery is the first description of the genes responsible for alkane biosynthesis and the first example of a single step conversion of sugar to fuel‐grade alkanes by a "designer" microorganism, according to the company.
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