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octane

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n. (context chemistry English) Any of the eighteen isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons (C 8 H 18 ) found in petroleum, especially an iso-octane 2,2,4 trimethyl-pentane; they are used as fuels and solvents.

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Octane (known as Pulse in the United States ) is a 2003 thriller film directed by Marcus Adams and starring Madeleine Stowe , Mischa Barton and Norman Reedus . The film follows a divorced mother (Stowe) and her teenage daughter (Barton) on a late-night ...

Usage examples of octane.

Shenzhen was a megalopolis in a hurry, a boom town city going at a furious pace twenty-four hours a day, running at full blast on the high octane fuel that was the most profane of words in all of Communist China: capitalism.

Back before all the friendly microbes of today that cheerfully turn our garbage into high octane, nonpolluting fuel or churn out the monoclonal antibodies that cure everything from colds to cancer.

He knew the blade capacity of each sword swallower and the octane rating of every fire eater.