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disterane

disterane is the misspelling of diasterane.

Meaning of diasterane

Noun (1)

diasterane (plural diasteranes)

  1. Any of a group of isomers of steranes formed during diagenesis
    • Additionally, Mississippi River discharge could not explain the elevated hopane, sterane, and diasterane concentrations [23, 75 ] and depletion in natural abundance radiocarbon [63 ] in NE GoM surface sediments that are indicative of petroleum hydrocarbon input.2015 July 15, “Sedimentation Pulse in the NE Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 DWH Blowout”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Noun (2)

diasterane (plural diasteranes)

  1. The simplest possible asterane tricyclo[3.1.1.12,4]octane, or [2]asterane

Questions about disterane

What is disterane the misspelling of?
Disterane is the misspelling of diasterane.

Words near disterane in the dictionary

  1. distent
  2. distention
  3. distentions
  4. distents
  5. dister
  6. disterane
  7. disterminate
  8. distermination
  9. disteroidal
  10. disterred
  11. disters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disterane (page history and authors); diasterane (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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