noun
- A saturated hydrocarbon containing one or more rings of carbon atoms; a cycloalkane.
Usage: technical; chemistry
Examples
- Cycloparaffins are common components of crude oil and petroleum products.
- The chemist identified cycloparaffin structures in the gas chromatography analysis.
- Cyclohexane is one of the simplest cycloparaffins used in industrial applications.
- Cycloparaffins differ from straight-chain paraffins in their ring structure.
- The refinery processes cycloparaffins to produce high-octane gasoline.