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English
Etymology
From oct- + -ane.
Pronunciation
Noun
octane (plural octanes)
- (organic chemistry) Any of the eighteen isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons (C8H18) found in petroleum, especially an iso-octane 2,2,4 trimethyl-pentane; they are used as fuels and solvents.
- octane number
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Translations
isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons
- Arabic: أُوكْتَان (ʔuktān)
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- Bulgarian: октан m (oktan)
- Burmese: အောက်တိန်း (auktin:)
- Catalan: octà m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 辛烷 (zh) (xīnwàn)
- Czech: oktan (cs) m
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- Dutch: octaan (nl)
- Esperanto: oktano
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- Finnish: oktaani (fi)
- French: octane (fr) m
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- German: Octan (de) n
- Greek: οκτάνιο (el) n (oktánio)
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- Icelandic: oktan n
- Ido: oktano (io)
- Indonesian: oktana (id)
- Italian: ottano (it) m
- Japanese: オクタン (okutan)
- Khmer: អុកតាន (ʼoktaan)
- Korean: 옥테인 (oktein)
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- Norwegian: oktan n
- Persian: اکتان (fa) (oktân)
- Polish: oktan (pl) m
- Portuguese: octano (pt) m
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- Russian: окта́н (ru) m (oktán)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: о̀кта̄н m
- Roman: òktān (sh) m
- Spanish: octano m
- Swedish: oktan (sv) n
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Pronunciation
Noun
octane m (plural octanes)
- octane
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