Definitions
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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry Any of very many
isomers of thealiphatic hydrocarbon having twenty-onecarbon 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.
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