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HEPTANE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does heptane mean?
• HEPTANE (noun)
The noun HEPTANE has 1 sense:
1. a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid obtained from petroleum and used as an anesthetic or a solvent or in determining octane ratings
Familiarity information: HEPTANE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A colorless volatile highly flammable liquid obtained from petroleum and used as an anesthetic or a solvent or in determining octane ratings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("heptane" is a kind of...):
alkane; alkane series; methane series; paraffin; paraffin series (a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2))
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