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Aliphatic
Webster's Dictionary
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, fat; fatty; - applied to compounds having an openc-hain structure. The aliphatic compounds thus include not only the fatty acids and other derivatives of the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Aliphatic'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/a/aliphatic.html. 1828.