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naphthene

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Noun
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naph=thene

CIDE DICTIONARY

naphthenen. 
     A peculiar hydrocarbon fraction occuring as an ingredient of some crude petroleums, mostly mixtures of derivatives of the five- and six-membered saturated cyclic alkanes, cyclopentane and cyclohexane, having the general formula CnH2n.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

naphthene, n. any of a group of cycloalkanes.

Etymology
NAPHTHA + -ENE

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