'Tetrakosane' definitions:
Definition of 'Tetrakosane'
- Tetrakosane \Tet"ra*ko*sane`\, n. [Tetra- + Gr. ? twenty.]
(Chem.)
A hydrocarbon, C24H50, resembling paraffin, and like it
belonging to the marsh-gas series; -- so called from having
twenty-four atoms of carbon in the molecule.
[1913 Webster]
