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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or being a hydrocarbon unit, C7H15, that can occur as a substituent in an organic compound or as an ion or radical.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hypothetical radical (C7H15) of heptylic alcohol and its derivatives.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A compound radical, C7H15, regarded as the essential radical of heptane and a related series of compounds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry Either of many
isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C7H15, formally derived fromheptane by the loss of ahydrogen atom.
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Pinus, which heptane yielded primary heptyl-alcohol, and methyl-pentyl-carbinol, exactly as the heptane obtained from petroleum does (_Annalen de Chemie_, ccxvii., 139, and clxxxviii., 249; and
Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 Various
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