'Trikosane' definitions:
Definition of 'Trikosane'
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Trikosane \Tri"ko*sane\, n. [Pref. tri- + Gr. ? twenty.] (Chem.)
A hydrocarbon, C23H48, of the methane series, resembling
paraffin; -- so called because it has twenty-three atoms of
carbon in the molecule.
[1913 Webster]
