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CIDE DICTIONARY

tetrakosane

CIDE DICTIONARY

tetrakosanen. [Tetra- + Gr. twenty.].
     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.  [1913 Webster]

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