Decalin

[dek-uh-lin]

Chemistry, Trademark.

1. a brand of decahydronaphthalene.

Example Sentences

They wanted to investigate the ability of the substance's latent pores to separate two different forms of decalin.

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This changes the decalin's physical and chemical properties and so makes the substance a good candidate for exploring selective encapsulation.

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But something about the interaction between polyethylene molecules and the new solvents seems to encourage the formation of more perfect crystals than those that emerge from a decalin solution.

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They then cooled the mixture down, letting crystals form, drew fibres from the result, and tested what they had to see how it compared with fibres prepared using a non-polar solvent called decalin.

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