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Etymology

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From hepta- +‎ -one. Does not conform to IUPAC nomenclature and the coining probably precedes the current conventions.

Noun

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heptone (countable and uncountable, plural heptones)

  1. (organic chemistry) A liquid hydrocarbon, C7H10, of the valylene series.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for heptone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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