hexacosane

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hexacosane - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hexeikosane \Hex*ei"ko*sane\, n. [Hex- + eikosane.] (chem.)
     A hydrocarbon, C26H54, resembling paraffine; -- so called
     because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon.
     [Written also hexacosane.]
     [1913 Webster]