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alkylic

alkylic adjective: relating to or composed of alkyl chains; aliphatic.

Adjective

alkylic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to or composed of alkyl chains; aliphatic.
    • In other studies, Othman et al. and Vaccaro et al. synthesized and characterized amphiphilic complex obtained by coupling the hydrophilic DOTA ligand [1,4,7,10-tetrakis(carboxymethyl)-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane] to squalenoyl moieties and complexes containing amphiphilic supramolecular...2015 August 10, Simone Rodrigues Silva et al., “Gadolinium(III) Complexes with N-Alkyl-N-methylglucamine Surfactants Incorporated into Liposomes as Potential MRI Contrast Agents”, in Bioinorganic...

Origin of alkylic

From alkyl + -ic.

Questions about alkylic

What does alkylic mean?
Alkylic means relating to or composed of alkyl chains; aliphatic.
What part of speech is alkylic?
Alkylic is an adjective.

Words near alkylic in the dictionary

  1. alkylhydroperoxidases
  2. alkylhydroperoxide
  3. alkylhydroperoxides
  4. alkylhydroxylamide
  5. alkylhydroxylamides
  6. alkylic
  7. alkylidene
  8. alkylideneamino
  9. alkylideneaminoxyl
  10. alkylideneaminoxyls
  11. alkylideneaminyl

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