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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 .
Etymologies
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