The Dictionary of Environmental Science and Engineering, Second Edition
These are also called paraffins. Lower alkanes are colorless gases or liquids but higher alkanes (17 or more carbons in the chain) are solids. There are straight chain alkanes, branched alkanes and cycloalkanes. The simplest alkane is methane.
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