-ane
suff.(后缀)
语源
suff.(后缀)
- A saturated hydrocarbon:
烷:一种饱合的碳水化合物:
hexane.
己烷
语源
- Variant of -ene
-ene的变体 - -ine 2
-ine2 - -one
-one
-ane
suffix forming nouns
indicating an alkane hydrocarbon
⇒
hexane
Origin
coined to replace -ene, -ine, and -one-ane
Word Origin
Chemistry.
1
a suffix used in names of hydrocarbons of the methane or paraffin series:
propane.
Origin
< Latin -ānus -an
Related Words
- adamantane
- alkane
- araban
- bethanechol
- borane
- busulfan
-ane1. a noun suffix used in chemical terms, especially names of hydrocarbons of the methane or paraffin series, as decane, pentane, propane.
2. an adjective suffix used when a similar form (with a different meaning) exists in -an, as human, humane.
[Latin -ānus, adjective suffix]-ane
noun suffix
furane
2. saturated hydrocarbon
alkane
methane
noun suffix
ETYMOLOGY International Scientific Vocabulary -an, -ane, alteration of -ene, -ine, & -one
1. -an III,1furane
2. saturated hydrocarbon
alkane
methane
-ane2
suffix
- Chemistry forming names of saturated hydrocarbons【化】[构成饱和碳氢化合物的名称]:
-
methane
propane.
词源
on the pattern of words such as -ene, -ine.
-ane1
suffix
- variant spelling of
-AN , usually with a distinction of sense (such as humane compared with human) but sometimes with no corresponding form in -an (such as mundane).同-AN (通常意义有别, 如humane之于human, 但有时没有相应的an形式, 如mundane)。
-ane
word-forming element in chemical use, indicating a chain of carbon atoms with no double bonds, proposed 1866 by German chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892) to go with -ene, -ine(2), -one.
-ane
hydrocarbon and heterocyclic compounds:
hydrocarbon and heterocyclic compounds:
methane, dioxane
☞ ane
-ane
\ˌān\ noun suffix
(-s)
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary -an, -ane, alteration of -ene, -ine, & -one
1. : -an III 1
< urethane >
2. : saturated or completely hydrogenated carbon compound — in names of hydrocarbons and some parent heterocyclic compounds
< methane >
< cholestane >
< dioxane >
— distinguished from -ene, -yne
1.
< urethane >
2.
< methane >
< cholestane >
< dioxane >
— distinguished from -ene, -yne
-ane
Suffix
- organic chemistry A saturated hydrocarbon; an alkane.
- chemistry A simple binary compound of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid.
Derived terms
alkanes
compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid