• (n.) A hydrocarbon, C24H50, resembling paraffin, and like it belonging to the marsh-gas series; -- so called from having twenty-four atoms of carbon in the molecule.
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Tet'ra·ko·sane` noun [
Tetra- + Greek ... twenty.]
(Chemistry) A hydrocarbon, C
24 H
50 , resembling paraffin, and like it belonging to the marsh-gas series; -- so called from having
twenty-four atoms of carbon in the molecule.
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