tetramethylmethane

English[edit]

tetramethylmethane (uncountable)

(organic chemistry) neopentane
- 1938, Pennsylvania State College, Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations: Submitted to the Pennsylvania State College in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degrees of Doctor of Education and Doctor of Philosophy‎^[1], volume 1, State College:
  In this and all other tables the molecular weight of tetramethylmethane was taken at 72.09, and the ice point as 273.16°K^{[sic – meaning 273.16K]}.
- 2016, Eric F. Lype, Roger Eichorn, Joseph F. Masi, edited by Joseph F. Masi and Donald H. Tsai, Progress in International Research on Thermodynamic and Transport Properties‎^[2], revised edition, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 173:
  The system selected for initial study was that involving tetramethylmethane and tetrachloromethane.