Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several isomeric, volatile, colorless, highly flammable liquid hydrocarbons, C7H16, obtained in the fractional distillation of petroleum and used as solvents. The straight-chain isomer is also used as a standard in determining octane ratings and as an anesthetic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A paraffin having the formula C7H16.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Any one of several isometric hydrocarbons, C7H16, of the paraffin series (nine are possible, four are known); -- so called because the molecule has
seven carbon atoms. Specifically, a colorless liquid, found as a constituent of petroleum, in the tar oil of cannel coal, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry Any of the nine
isomers of thesaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon C7H16, obtained frompetroleum , especiallyn-heptane (CH3(CH2)5CH3)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid obtained from petroleum and used as an anesthetic or a solvent or in determining octane ratings
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is pure heptane which is the 2nd ingredient in rubber cement.
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It is pure heptane which is the 2nd ingredient in rubber cement.
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My mad laboratory had various smell chemicals to experiment with lighter fluid, grease remover, heptane solvent etc, but I didn't WANT to experiment.
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Modern tapes have an acrylic adhesive which responds both to heat and to heptane (rubber cement thinner) or naphtha (lighter fluid) [not at the same time!]
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Modern tapes have an acrylic adhesive which responds both to heat and to heptane (rubber cement thinner) or naphtha (lighter fluid) [not at the same time!]
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The compounds are classified as asphaltenes or maltenes according to their solubility in hexane or heptane.
Asphalt 2008
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They then adopt a more rational approach for the rest, with pentane, hexane, heptane, octane and onwards in Greek.
On twoth DC 2008
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Professors Schorlemmer and Thorpe have found heptane in
Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 Various
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Inside the chamber, small drops of chemicals such as heptane or methanol are set on
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In another finding, air samples taken in mid-May outside the organization's office near downtown New Orleans showed elevated levels of hexane and heptane, neurotoxins found in petroleum.
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