Hopanoic
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
Example
More examples"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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