Hex‐ei″ko‐sane (?), n. [Hex- + eikosane.] (chem.) A hydrocarbon, C26H54, resembling paraffine; — so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon. [Written also hexacosane.]
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.