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Aliphatic

The term used to describe open-chain organic compounds and those cyclic compounds (such as cyclohexane) which have similar chemical properties to open-chain compounds

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Energy; Natural gas

Hydrocarbon that does not contain an aromatic ring structure. See AROMATIC.

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Chemistry; General chemistry

the term used to describe open-chain organic compounds and those cyclic compounds (such as cyclohexane) which have similar chemical properties to open-chain compounds

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Biology; Entomology

A term applied to the "open chain" or fatty series of hydrocarbons.

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Of, relating to, or derived from fat; fatty; acyclic. Applied to a large class of organic compounds characterized by an open-chain structure and consisting of the paraffin, ...

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Carbon and hydrogen compounds that may be branched of straight chained. Aliphatics may be paraffin (saturated) or olefinic (unsaturated).

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A series of open-chained carbon-hydrogen compounds; the two major classes are the series with saturated bonds and with the unsaturated.

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