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Octane

Octane

See also: octane

German

Noun

Octane n

plural of Octan

octane

octane

See also: Octane

English

Noun

octane ‎(plural octanes)

(chemistry) Any of the eighteen isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons (C₈H₁₈) found in petroleum, especially an iso-octane 2,2,4 trimethyl-pentane; they are used as fuels and solvents.

Translations

isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons

Chinese:
Mandarin: 辛烷 (zh) ‎(xīnwàn)
Dutch: octaan (nl)
Esperanto: oktano
Finnish: oktaani (fi)
French: octane (fr) m
German: Octan (de) n
Icelandic: oktan n
Ido: oktano (io)
Italian: ottano (it) m

Japanese: オクタン ‎(okutan)
Norwegian: oktan n
Persian: اکتان (fa) ‎(oktân)
Polish: oktan (pl) m
Portuguese: octano (pt) m
Russian: окта́н (ru) m ‎(oktán)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: о̀кта̄н m

Roman: òktān (sh) m
Spanish: octano m
Swedish: oktan (sv) n

Derived terms

octane number

Anagrams

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