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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[

Tetra-

+ Gr. [GREEK] ten.]

(Chem.)

A light oily hydrocarbon,

C14H30

, of the marsh-gas series; – so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule.

See also: tétradécane

tetradecane ‎(plural tetradecanes)

(organic chemistry) Any of very many isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having fourteen carbon atoms (C₁₄H₃₀)
A petroleum fraction rich in such compounds