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octamethylene

octamethylene noun: eight methylene groups in a molecule (typically in a row, with substituents or functional groups at each end).

Noun

octamethylene (uncountable)

  1. (especially, in-compounds) Eight methylene groups in a molecule (typically in a row, with substituents or functional groups at each end)

Origin of octamethylene

From octa- + methylene.

Questions about octamethylene

What does octamethylene mean?
Octamethylene means eight methylene groups in a molecule (typically in a row, with substituents or functional groups at each end).
What part of speech is octamethylene?
Octamethylene is a noun.

Words near octamethylene in the dictionary

  1. octameter
  2. octameters
  3. octamethyl
  4. octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane
  5. octamethylcyclotetrasiloxanes
  6. octamethylene
  7. octamethylpyrophosphoramide
  8. octamethylpyrophosphoramides
  9. octamethyltrisiloxane
  10. octamoxin
  11. octan

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