heptacosadiene

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heptacosadiene (plural heptacosadienes)

  1. (organic chemistry) Any of very many isomeric dialkenes having twenty-seven carbon atoms and two double bonds, but especially (Z,Z) 7,11-heptacosadiene which is a courtship pheromone in fruit flies
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