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adamantane

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ad⋅a⋅man⋅tane

[ad-uh-man-teyn]
–noun Chemistry.
a white crystalline alicyclic hydrocarbon, C10H16, consisting of four fused cyclohexane rings, with the carbon atoms arranged as in the diamond lattice.
Compare amantadine.


Origin:
< F; see adamant, -ane; so called from the diamondlike arrangement of the carbon atoms
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