hopanoic

Adjective

hopanoic (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to a carboxylic acid of hopane.
   • The effects of deep burial diagenetic process are generally limited in the Westbury Formation, as indicated by: (1) The organics which have high n-alkane odd over even preference indices (in the C-27-C-35 n-alkane homologues), low temperature isomers in the steroidal and hopanoic fractions and the...1989, Dissertation Abstracts International: The sciences and engineering, page 2534
   • This behavior has, for instance, allowed the identification of geochemical markers as those of the hopanoic triterpenes series (52-64), which arc of importance in interpreting the evolution and origin of organic matter in sediments (Fig. 3.3).1989, L. A. Nakhimovsky, Marcel Lamotte, Jacques Joussot-Dubien, Handbook of low temperature electronic spectra of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, →ISBN, page 76