- Tetrakosane
- Tetrakosane Tet"ra*ko*sane`, n. [Tetra- + Gr. ? 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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.