alkane

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Etymology

alkyl +‎ -ane.

Noun

alkane (plural alkanes)

1. (organic chemistry) Any of saturated hydrocarbons including methane, ethane and compounds with long carbon chain known as paraffins etc., having a chemical formula of the form C_nH_2n+2.

Translations

saturated hydrocarbon of formula C_nH_2n+2

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烷 (cmn) (wán)

• Czech: alkan (cs) m
• Dutch: alkaan (nl) n
• Esperanto: alkano (eo)
• Finnish: alkaani (fi)
• French: alcane (fr) m
• German: Alkan (de) n
• Italian: alcano (it) m

• Japanese: アルカン (ja) (arukan)
• Norwegian: alkan (no) n
• Polish: alkan (pl) m
• Portuguese: alcano (pt)
• Romanian: alcan (ro) m
• Russian: алкан (ru) (alkán) m
• Spanish: alcano (es)
• Swedish: alkan (sv) c
• Turkish: alkan (tr)

Derived terms

• chlorofluoroalkane
• cycloalkane
• hydrofluoroalkane

Related terms

• -ane
• alkene
• alkyne

Hypernyms

• hydrocarbon

Hyponyms

methane ethane propane butane pentane hexane heptane

octane nonane decane undecane dodecane hexadecane tetracosane

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Finnish

Verb

alkane

1. Potential present connegative form of alkaa.

Anagrams

• alkaen, kelaan, kelana, lakena, lankea, lekana