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ad•a•man•tane n. [Chem.]

Chemistrya white crystalline alicyclic hydrocarbon, C₁₀H₁₆, consisting of four fused cyclohexane rings, with the carbon atoms arranged as in the diamond lattice. Cf. amantadine.

French; see adamant, -ane; so called from the diamondlike arrangement of the carbon atoms

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