Octane

English

Noun

Octane (plural Octanes)

1. (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.

Thesaurus

alcohol, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon, charcoal, coal, coke, combustible, dope, ethane, ethanol, fireball, firing, flammable, flammable material, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, heptane, hexane, inflammable, inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, kerosene, methane, methanol, natural gas, oil, paraffin, peat, pentane, propane, propellant, rocket fuel, turf

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɒk.teɪn/

Translations

isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons

Dutch: oktaan Esperanto: oktano (eo) Finnish: oktaani (fi) German: Octan (de) n. Icelandic: oktan (is) n. Ido: oktano (io) Italian: ottano (it) m. Norwegian: oktan (no) n.

Polish: oktan (pl) m. Portuguese: octano (pt) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: о̀кта̄н (sh) m. Roman: òktān (sh) m. Spanish: octano (es) m. Swedish: oktan (sv) n.

Derived terms

• octane number

Anagrams

• acteon
• at once