Aliphatic

Definition: Aliphatic

Aliphatic

Adjective

1. Having carbon atoms linked in open chains.

Etymology: Aliphatic \Al`i*phat"ic\, adjective. [from Greek expression oil, fat.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Aliphatic

Domain	Definitions
Mining	Of, relating to, or derived from fat; fatty; acyclic. Applied to a large class of organic compounds characterized by an open-chain structure and consisting of the paraffin, olefin, and acetylene hydrocarbons and theirderivatives (as the fatty acids). (references)
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Specialty Definition: Aliphatic

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In chemistry, hydrocarbon compounds having an open chain structure (this is, non-aromatic) are called aliphatic (synonyms: acyclic, open chain); they include not only the fatty acids and other derivatives of the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, such as the ethylene (alkene) and acetylene (alkyne) series.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Aliphatic."

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Crosswords: Aliphatic

English words defined with "aliphatic": alicyclic compound, aliphatic compound, alkene, alkyl, alkyl group, alkyl radical ♦ fatty acid ♦ olefin, olefine. (references)

Specialty definitions using "aliphatic": 1-Propanol ♦ Alkanesulfonates, Alkanesulfonic Acids, Aminobutyric Acids ♦ Biogenic Polyamines, Butylene Glycols ♦ Detergents, Diamines ♦ ETHYL TERTIARY BUTYL ETHER ♦ Glutathione Transferase ♦ Hydrocarbons, Alicyclic ♦ paraffin waxes, petroleum ceresin, Phospholipid Ethers, polyene, polyethene, polypropene resin, polysulfide rubber ♦ Rifamycins ♦ SBP spirits ♦ Tachykinins, thioplast. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Aliphatic

Domain	Title
Books	Aliphatic Nucleophilic Substitution (reference) Corrosive Agents & Their Interaction With Materials: Aliphatic Ketones, Ammonium Salts, Atmosphere, Potassium Chloride (The Dechema Corrosion handboo (reference) Diazo Chemistry, Vol. 2, Aliphatic, Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds (reference) The Organic Chemistry of Aliphatic Nitrogen Compounds (International Series of Monographs on Chemistry, Vol 28) (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Aliphatic

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Propionic acid from aliphatic acid is also imported as well as varieties of fatty amines, such as isopropyl amine, diisopropylamine, and ethylenediamine. (references)
		China has imported equipment from the U.S. for producing such products as acrylic acid and acrylic ester, aliphatic alcohol, polyacrylamide, and aureomycin. (references)
		Annual imports of raw materials and intermediates is around $100 million, among which the largest quantity is from aliphatic alcohol, including isopropyl alcohol, butyl alcohol, octyl alcohol and propylene glycol. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Aliphatic

"Aliphatic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aliphatic" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	6	143,867

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Expressions: Aliphatic

Expressions using "aliphatic": aliphatic acid ♦ aliphatic compound. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aliphatic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
aliphatic	17
aliphatic hydrocarbons	6
aliphatic goo	4
aliphatic urethane	3
aliphatic resin	3
aliphatic hydrocarbon	3
aliphatic alcohol	3
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Modern Translations: Aliphatic

Language		Translations for "aliphatic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		脂肪族. (various references)

Danish		alifatisk. (various references)

Dutch		alifatisch. (various references)

Finnish		avoketjuinen, alifaattinen. (various references)

French		aliphatique. (various references)

German		kettenförmig. (various references)

Greek		αλειφατικός. (various references)

Hungarian		alifás. (various references)

Italian		alifatico. (various references)

Korean		지방족. (various references)

Pig Latin		aliphaticay

Portuguese		alifático. (various references)

Spanish		alifático. (various references)

Swedish		alifatisk. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Aliphatic

Derivations
	Words ending with "aliphatic": cycloaliphatic. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Aliphatic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aliphatics, allophatic, lexiphanic, Maliphant. (additional references)
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Rhyming with "Aliphatic"

Words rhyming with "aliphatic" (pronounced 'Al`i*phat"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Aliphatic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-i-i-l-p-t"
	-1 letter: haptical.
	-2 letters: aplitic, calathi, capital, chapati, tilapia.
	-3 letters: apical, caliph, capita, chital, haptic, hiatal, italic, litchi, lithia, lithic, phatic.
	-4 letters: aalii, aitch, alpha, chapt, chili, cilia, clapt, clipt, iliac, laich, laith, latch, lathi, lichi, licht, licit, litai, pacha, patch, phial, pical, pitch, plait, plica, tical.
	-5 letters: acta, alit, atap, caph, chap, chat, chia, chip, chit.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-h-i-i-l-p-t"
	+2 letters: epithalamic.
	+4 letters: calligraphist, callithumpian, cephalization, pantheistical.
	+5 letters: aphoristically, calligraphists, cephalizations, cycloaliphatic, idiopathically, interparochial, philatelically.
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