nonanaphthene
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]nonanaphthene (countable and uncountable, plural nonanaphthenes)
- (chemistry) Any napthene with 9 carbon atoms.
- 1934, United States. National Bureau of Standards, Technical News Bulletin, volumes 201-224, page 122:
- The isolated nonanaphthene belongs to a general class of saturated monocyclic petroleum hydrocarbons, called naphthenes […]
- 1937, Universal Oil Products Company. Research Laboratories, Library Bulletin of Abstracts, volumes 12-13, page 195:
- The range of the refractive indices for the half-degree fractions indicated the presence of nonanaphthenes and isononanes.