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Alkane

Alkane

See also: alkane

German

Noun

Alkane n

plural of Alkan

alkane

alkane

See also: Alkane

English

Noun

alkane ‎(plural alkanes)

(organic chemistry) Any of saturated hydrocarbons including methane, ethane and compounds with long carbon chain known as paraffins etc., having a chemical formula of the form C_nH_2n+2.

Translations

saturated hydrocarbon of formula C_nH_2n+2

Chinese:

Cantonese: 烷 ‎(jyun⁴, jyun⁴⁻²)

Mandarin: 烷 (zh) ‎(wán)
Czech: alkan m
Danish: alkan c
Dutch: alkaan (nl) n
Esperanto: alkano
Finnish: alkaani (fi)
French: alcane (fr) m
German: Alkan (de) n
Greek: αλκάνιο n ‎(alkánio)
Hindi: सुषान्य ‎(suṣānya)
Irish: alcán m
Italian: alcano (it) m

Japanese: アルカン (ja) ‎(arukan)
Malay: alkana
Norwegian:

Bokmål: alkan (no) n

Nynorsk: alkan n
Polish: alkan (pl) m
Portuguese: alcano (pt)
Romanian: alcan (ro) m
Russian: алка́н (ru) m ‎(alkán)
Spanish: alcano
Swedish: alkan (sv) c
Turkish: alkan (tr)

Derived terms

chlorofluoroalkane
cycloalkane
hydrofluoroalkane

Related terms

Hypernyms

hydrocarbon

Hyponyms

Finnish

Verb

alkane

Potential present connegative form of alkaa.

Anagrams

alkaen, kelaan, kelana, lakena, lankea, lekana