Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various liquid isomers, C10H22, of the alkane series.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hydrocarbon (C10H22) which may be regarded as a polymer of amyl (C5H11), and the only form in which this radical can be made to exist in the free state. It is a paraffin found in coal-tar. See
amyl .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry any of the seventy-five
isomers of thealiphatic hydrocarbon having thechemical formula C10H22
Etymologies
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deca- + -ane
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A long list of volatile organic compounds, or VOCs [including benzene, xylene, hexane, heptane, octane, decane, trichloroethylene (TCE), and methylene chloride], have been shown to cause illnesses in people who are exposed to the compounds in indoor spaces.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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