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Webster 1913 Edition


Hendecane

Hen′de-cane

,
Noun.
[Gr.
ἕνδεκα
eleven.]
(Chem.)
A hydrocarbon,
C11H24
, of the paraffin series; – so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also
endecane
,
undecane
.