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straight-chain

straight-chain adjective: describing any aliphatic compound that contains a chain of carbon atoms all of which are connected to either one or two others.

Adjective

straight-chain (not comparable)

  1. Describing any aliphatic compound that contains a chain of carbon atoms all of which are connected to either one or two others.

Questions about straight-chain

What does straight-chain mean?
Straight-chain means describing any aliphatic compound that contains a chain of carbon atoms all of which are connected to either one or two others.
What part of speech is straight-chain?
Straight-chain is an adjective.

Words near straight-chain in the dictionary

  1. straight-armed
  2. straight-arming
  3. straight-arms
  4. straight-arrow
  5. straight-arrows
  6. straight-chain
  7. straight-cut
  8. straight-edger
  9. straight-edgers
  10. straight-eight
  11. straight-eights

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