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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A hydrocarbon, C24H50, resembling paraffin, and like it belonging to the marsh-gas series; -- so called from having
twenty-four atoms of carbon in the molecule.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
tetracosane .
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