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English
Etymology
From spiro- + cyclooctane.
Noun
spirocyclooctane (plural spirocyclooctanes)
- (chemistry) A divalent radical in which a cyclooctane ring is fused to another ring at a single carbon atom, the two rings being more or less at right angles to one another.
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