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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An organic molecular structure in the form of an unbranched open chain.
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- noun chemistry A
structural element of amolecule consisting of anunbranched sequence ofatoms or simple groups, especially such a sequence ofmethylene groups in aaliphatic compound
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- noun an open chain of atoms with no side chains
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