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steranes

steranes is the plural of sterane.

Meaning of sterane

Noun

sterane (plural steranes)

  1. A tetracyclic hydrocarbon related to the steroids
    • At right, values in parentheses represent a measure of relative signal intensity for the steranes in acquired MRM chromatograms (though absolute abundances are determined from individual peak areas) and the numbers beneath are the masses (in daltons) of the ion transitions (molecular weight...2009 February 5, Gordon D. Love et al., “Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7230, →DOI, pages 718–721

Questions about steranes

What is steranes the plural of?
Steranes is the plural of sterane.

Words near steranes in the dictionary

  1. steradian
  2. steradiancies
  3. steradiancy
  4. steradians
  5. sterane
  6. steranes
  7. Sterba
  8. Sterbas
  9. Sterbfritz
  10. stercobilin
  11. stercobilinogen

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