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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[

Tetra-

+ Gr. [GREEK] twenty.]

(Chem.)

A hydrocarbon,

C24H50

, resembling paraffin, and like it belonging to the marsh-gas series; – so called from having twenty-four atoms of carbon in the molecule.

tetrakosane ‎(plural tetrakosanes)