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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A colorless hydrocarbon, C21H44, found in brown coal paraffin. It melts at 40.4° C., and boils at 215° C. under 15 millimeters pressure.

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  • noun organic chemistry Any of very many isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having twenty-one carbon atoms, but especially n-heneicosane CH3(CH2)19CH3

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  • Blaustein's group then conducted outdoor experiments on potential chemicals and determined that two of these N. maculata-released chemicals, n-tricosane and n-heneicosane, repelled these mosquitoes from laying eggs.

    RedOrbit News - Technology 2010

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