rotane (English, noun)
expansion: rotane (plural rotanes)
Senses:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of hydrocarbons consisting of spiro-linked cyclopropane units only, but with a common [n]membered ring in the middle; they are named n-rotanes depending on the size of the inner ring
Forms:
form: rotanes
tags: plural