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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 ratingsplay

  Familiarity information: HEPTANE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HEPTANE (noun)


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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