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How to pronounce hexane in English?

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Type of alkane, alkane series, dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, methane series, paraffin, paraffin series, resolvent, solvent

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Benzene has 8 hydrogen atoms fewer than the corresponding parent alkane, hexane.
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The acute toxicity of hexane is relatively low, although it is a mild anesthetic.
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Aliphatic compounds can be cyclic, like cyclohexane, or acyclic, like hexane.
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The women said that they were exposed to hexane while manufacturing iPhone hardware.
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The supernatant was discarded and the particles were redispersed in hexane.
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Instead, they tend to be based on less toxic solvents such as n-hexane and n-heptane.
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But the new formula contained n-hexane, a toxin that causes nerve damage.
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The factory used a chemical as toxic as n-hexane to clean plastic parts.
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The toxicity is not due to hexane itself but to one of its metabolites, hexane-2,5-dione.
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  • A colorless flammable liquid alkane derived from petroleum and used as a solvent
  • Hexane is a hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C6H14; that is, an alkane with six carbon atoms.
  • This page provides supplementary chemical data on n-hexane.
  • Any of five isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons, C6H14. They are colorless, volatile liquids
  • A hydrocarbon volatile liquid found in glue or gasoline.