Crossword-Solution: HEXANE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hexane | n. | Any one of five hydrocarbons, C6H14, of the paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, and are so called because the molecule has six carbon atoms. |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
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Now if you try to draw the diagrams or structural formulas of these two compounds you will easily get H H H H H H H | | | | | | | H-C-H H-C-C-C-C-C-C-H | | | | | | | H H H H H H H methane hexane Each carbon atom, you see, has its four hands outstretched and duly grasped by one-handed hydrogen atoms or by neighboring carbon atoms in the chain.
Benzene, C_{6}H_{6}, evidently is like hexane, C_{6}H_{14}, in having a chain of six carbon atoms, but it has dropped its H's like an Englishman.
Etym: [Hex- + -yl.] (chem.) Defn: A compound radical, C6H13, regarded as the essential residue of hexane, and a related series of compounds.
The lightest members are gases, as methane, ethane; intermediate members are liquids, as hexane, heptane, etc.
Chem.) Denoting that series of hydrocarbons in which no carbon atom is united with more than two other carbon atoms; as, normal pentane, hexane, etc.
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Used 11 times in crossword archives (1995–2021).