Definition of Cycloparaffin

1. Noun. (chemistry) a cycloalkane ¹

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Definition of Cycloparaffin

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cycloparaffin

cycloolefin
cycloolefinic
cycloolefins
cyclooxegenases
cyclooxygenase
cyclooxygenase-1
cyclooxygenase-2
cyclooxygenase inhibitor
cyclooxygenases
cyclopaedia
cyclopaedias
cyclopaedic
cyclopalladated
cyclopalladation
cyclopamine
cycloparaffin (current term)
cycloparaffins
cycloparaphenylene
cycloparaphenylenes
cyclopean
cyclopean masonry
cyclopedia
cyclopedias
cyclopedic
cyclopedist
cyclopedists
cyclopel
cyclopenta phenanthrene
cyclopentaarsine

Literary usage of Cycloparaffin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"... esters ire converted by the action of bromine or iodine, or of CH,I, and CH,Br. CH,Br, into cycloparaffin tetracarboxylic esters. ..."

2. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"The resulting cycloparaffin tetracarboxylic acids split off two molecules of carbon dioxide and become cycloparaffin dicarboxylic acids (WH Perkin, ..."

3. Organic Chemistry for Advanced Students by Julius Berend Cohen (1918)
"Vm cycloparaffin. The amount of contraction varies with the size of the ring. ... V,, A Vm cycloparaffin. Benzene 96 20 116 Cyclohexane Toluene 118-3 23-5 ..."

4. Oil Spill Dispersants: Efficacy And Effects by National Research Council (U. S.) (2005)
"Solubility in water of C1-C9 hydrocarbons. Nature 200:1092—1093. McAuliffe, CD 1966. Solubility in water of paraffin, cycloparaffin, olefin, acetylene, ..."

5. Managing Coal Combustion Residues in Mines by National Academies Press, National Research Council (U. S.) (2006)
"They are divided into groups of which those of special interest to geologists are the paraffin, cycloparaffin, olefin, and aromatic groups. ..."

6. The Petroleum and Allied Industries: Petroleum, Natural Gas, Natural Waxes by James Kewley (1922)
"... PETROLEUM AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES For six hydrocarbons of the paraffin series and for nine of the cycloparaffin series he finds -r — about 155. ..."

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