Hopanoic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to a carboxylic acid of hopane. not-comparable

    "The effects of deep burial diagenetic process are generally limited in the Westbury Formation, as indicated by: (1) The organics which have high n-alkane odd over even preference indices (in the C-27-C-35 n-alkane homologues), low temperature isomers in the steroidal and hopanoic fractions and the presence of unsaturated n-alkanes."

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"The effects of deep burial diagenetic process are generally limited in the Westbury Formation, as indicated by: (1) The organics which have high n-alkane odd over even preference indices (in the C-27-C-35 n-alkane homologues), low temperature isomers in the steroidal and hopanoic fractions and the presence of unsaturated n-alkanes."

Etymology

From hopane + -oic.

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