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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An oily unsaturated hydrocarbon, CH3(CH2)4.CH:CH2, of the ethylene series, made by the action of heated lime on chloroheptane. It boils at 98–99° C. Also called
normal 6 -heptylene.
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