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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as hexadecane.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (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.

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  • noun Archaic form of hexadecane.

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Ancient Greek

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