-ane

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 274 words | Copyright

-ane2 (chem.) in the systematic nomenclature of Hofmann (1866), the termination for names of the hydrocarbons called paraffins, e.g. ethane; devised to introduce with a the vowel series already in vogue, -ene, -ine, -one in the nomenclature of other classes of hydrocarbons.

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