noun
- Saturated hydrocarbons containing one or more rings of carbon atoms; also called naphthenes or cycloalkanes.
Usage: technical; chemistry; plural form
Examples
- Cycloparaffins are important components of crude oil and petroleum products.
- The refinery separated cycloparaffins from other hydrocarbons during the distillation process.
- Cyclohexane is one of the most common cycloparaffins found in industrial applications.
- Cycloparaffins have higher boiling points than their straight-chain alkane counterparts.
- The chemical structure of cycloparaffins makes them useful in manufacturing synthetic fuels.