ADAMANTANE


Meaning of ADAMANTANE in English

ˌadəˈmanˌtān noun

( -s )

Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary adamant (I) + -ane; probably originally formed as German adamantan

: a crystalline high-melting hydrocarbon C 10 H 16 having the carbon atoms of its skeleton in the same tricyclic pattern found in the space lattice of the diamond; symmetrical tricyclo-decane

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