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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A colorless, crystalline, olefinic hydrocarbon, C30H60, prepared by the distillation of beeswax. It melts at 82° C.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C30H60, of the ethylene series, obtained from beeswax as a white, scaly, crystalline wax; -- called also
melissene , andmelissylene .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry An
unsaturated hydrocarbon , C30H60, of theethylene series , obtained frombeeswax as a white, scaly, crystalline wax.
Etymologies
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Blend of melissic and ethylene
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