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Webster 1913 Edition

Hexeikosane

Hex-ei′ko-sane

,

Noun.

[

Hex-

+

eikosane

.]

(chem.)

A hydrocarbon,

C26H54

, resembling paraffine; – so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon.

[Written also

hexacosane

.]