Aliphatic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or designating a group of organic chemical compounds in which the carbon atoms are linked in open chains.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of a class of organic compounds in which the carbon atoms are arranged in an open chain.
  • n. A compound of this type.
  • n. A petroleum fraction containing no aromatic compounds
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of, pertaining to, or derived from, fat; fatty; -- applied to compounds having an open-chain structure. The aliphatic compounds thus include not only the fatty acids and other derivatives of the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series. Compare alicyclic and aromatic.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to fat; fatty; specifically, in chem., designating compounds which have only an open chain of carbon atoms, as distinguished especially from aromatic compounds, which contain a ring of carbon atoms, he natural fats consist chiefly of compounds of this type.
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  • adj. having carbon atoms linked in open chains
    • Equivalent
    open-chain    acyclic   
    Antonym
    alicyclic    aromatic   
    Cross Reference
    alicyclic    aromatic   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fatty   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    unsaturated    five-membered    biodegradable    polycyclic    sucrose   
     
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