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Meaning of "cubane" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CUBANE

From cube1 + -ane.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CUBANE

cubane  [ˈkjuːbeɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CUBANE

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Cubane is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CUBANE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cubane

Cubane is a synthetic hydrocarbon molecule that consists of eight carbon atoms arranged at the corners of a cube, with one hydrogen atom attached to each carbon atom. A solid crystalline substance, cubane is one of the Platonic hydrocarbons. It was first synthesized in 1964 by Philip Eaton, a professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago. Before Eaton and Cole's work, researchers believed that cubic carbon-based molecules could not exist, because the unusually sharp 90-degree bonding angle of the carbon atoms was expected to be too highly strained, and hence unstable. Once formed, cubane is quite kinetically stable, due to a lack of readily available decomposition paths. The other Platonic hydrocarbons are dodecahedrane and tetrahedrane. Cubane and its derivative compounds have many important properties. The 90-degree bonding angle of the carbon atoms in cubane means that the bonds are highly strained. Therefore, cubane compounds are highly reactive, which in principle may make them useful as high-density, high-energy fuels and explosives.

Definition of cubane in the English dictionary

The definition of cubane in the dictionary is a rare octahedral hydrocarbon formed by eight CH groups, each of which is situated at the corner of a cube. Formula: C8H8.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CUBANE


bane
beɪn
bugbane
ˈbʌɡˌbeɪn
cowbane
ˈkaʊˌbeɪn
dogbane
ˈdɒɡˌbeɪn
fleabane
ˈfliːˌbeɪn
flybane
ˈflaɪˌbeɪn
henbane
ˈhɛnˌbeɪn
inurbane
ˌɪnɜːˈbeɪn
mirbane
ˈmɜːˌbeɪn
Nubain
ˈnjuːˌbeɪn
ratsbane
ˈrætsˌbeɪn
urbane
ɜːˈbeɪn
wolfsbane
ˈwʊlfsˌbeɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CUBANE

cub master
cub mistress
cub reporter
Cub Scout
Cuba
Cuba libre
cubage
Cuban
Cuban heel
Cuban solenodon
cubanelle
cubature
cubbed
cubbing
cubbish
cubbishly
cubby
cubbyhole
cube
cube farm

WORDS THAT END LIKE CUBANE

airplane
ane
Brisbane
Canadian fleabane
cane
crane
Dane
humane
hurricane
Inhambane
insane
jane
kane
lane
leopard´s-bane
mane
Mbabane
membrane
plane
Strabane

Synonyms and antonyms of cubane in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «cubane» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CUBANE

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The translations of cubane from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cubane» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

立方烷
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cubane
570 millions of speakers

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cubane
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cubane
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

cubane
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кубан
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cubane
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

cubane
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cubane
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cubane
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Cuban
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

キュバン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

쿠반
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cubane
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cubane
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

cubane
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्यूबान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

küban
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cubane
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cubane
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Кубан
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cubane
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

cubane
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cubane
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cubane
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cubane
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cubane

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CUBANE»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CUBANE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cubane

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUBANE»

Discover the use of cubane in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cubane and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Modern Physical Organic Chemistry
For example, in cubane, homolysis of a C-C bond releases only a fraction of the total strain of the molecule and produces a biradical that has nowhere else to go ( Eq. 2.38). The two newly formed radicals are trapped in an arrangement in ...
Eric V. Anslyn, Dennis A. Dougherty, 2006
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Organic Chemistry of Explosives
1,4-Dinitrocubane (28) has been synthesized by Eaton and co-workers6,8 via two routes both starting from cubane-1,4-dicarboxylic acid (25). The first of these routes uses diphenylphosphoryl azide in the presence of a base and tert-butyl ...
Jai Prakash Agrawal, Robert Hodgson, 2007
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In Our Own Image: Personal Symmetry in Discovery
THE CUBANE STORY Buckminsterfullerene belongs to the interesting class of polyhedral molecules that includes many different representatives. Their structures are aesthetically attractive and amenable to simple symmetry descriptions.
Istvan Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai, 2000
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High Energy Materials: Propellants, Explosives and Pyrotechnics
cubane (C8H8) which has been named appropriately as its skeleton is in the shape of a cube. ONC, the first new nitrocarbon in the last 25 years, is introduced as a potential explosive of great power. Cubane is an exceptionally dense (1.29 ...
Jai Prakash Agrawal, 2010
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Organic Chemistry
A fascinating test case for this question is the molecule that has eight carbon atoms arranged in a cube, known as cubane. (This is a case in which the common name, cubane, rapidly conveys the structure of the compound and, for this reason, ...
Joseph Hornback, 2005
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Principles of Mass Spectrometry Applied to Biomolecules
Electron Storage and Sequential Oxidation of the [4Fe-4S] Cubane Cluster Iron has two common oxidation states: Fe2+ and Fe”, which are cycled in redox reactions involving Fe. The strong spin polarization stabilizes the d5 majority spins and ...
Chava Lifshitz, Julia Laskin, 2006
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Supramolecular Organometallic Chemistry
... 169 Calixarenes 58 Cobaltocene 68 Cobaltocenium cation 67, 361 Crystal engineering 19, 337 Cubane clusters 70 Cubane structures 13 Cubane, aluminum-nitrogen 120 Cubane,aluminum-phosphorus 122 Cubane, gallium- selenium 128 ...
Ionel Haiduc, Frank Thomas Edelmann, 2008
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Advances in Chemical Propulsion: Science to Technology
4.3.2 Cubane For cubane, the least stable isomer of the CsHs system, the pyrolysis behavior of cubane itself, and of the more stable cyclooctatetraene ( COT) and styrene isomers were studied. Both COT and styrene were stable over the range ...
Gabriel D. Roy, 2001
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Handbook of Chalcogen Chemistry: New Perspectives in Sulfur, ...
10.1.3.2 Preparation of Metal—Sulfur Clusters from Trinuclear Precursors Construction of cubane-type clusters by incorporating the metal fragment into the void corner of the incomplete cubane-type M3S4 clusters (M : Mo, W) has been studied ...
Francesco A. Devillanova, Woolf-Walther Du Mont, 2013
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Hydrogen Materials Science and Chemistry of Carbon ...
*Факс: +7(495)5155420 Introduction This report is the review of the results of researches on reduction multifunctional cubane derivatives by simple and complex hydrides of light metals which were performed at the ICPC RAS during last years.
D.V. Schur, S.Yu. Zaginaichenko, T.N. Veziroglu

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CUBANE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cubane is used in the context of the following news items.
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Iron-sulfur proteins hiding in plain sight
These experiments established that the fourth iron of the cubane Fe-S cluster is involved in ligating the enzymatic substrates, citrate and ... «Nature.com, Jun 15»
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Festival del Cinema a Innsbruck
In concorso per il premio al miglior film quest'anno ci sono opere etiopi, cubane, franco-senegalesi, ciadensi, salvadoregne, russe, austriache, ... «Alto Adige, Jun 15»
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Measurement of Reactive Oxygen Species in Different Cell Types
This enzyme is inactivated by superoxide through oxidization of the Fe moiety from its cubane {4Fe-4S} cluster. Therefore, concentrations of ... «News-Medical.net, Apr 15»
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L'alleanza con Mitt Romney può portare Marco Rubio alla …
Ma Marco Rubio, il senatore della Florida di origine cubane eletto nel novembre del 2010 con l'appoggio dei Tea Party, e' sempre piu' citato nei circoli ... «LiberoQuotidiano.it, Mar 15»
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Chemists zinc up 'aromatic' metal cubes
'Here is the first time you have a zinc cubane.' However, the study looks set to add to controversy over what constitutes aromaticity. «Royal Society of Chemistry, Mar 15»
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Dedicated research centre could improve university productivity
The private UniForum initiative (run by Cubane Consulting) with 19 university members looks at support functions, including their efficiency. «The Australian, Feb 15»
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Queste fotografie ci hanno fatto amare Cuba e la sua storia
Quello che qui interessa di più però, non è una lettura economicista delle vicende cubane, ma è definire meglio il mito e la realtà cubani, per ... «L'Huffington Post, Dec 14»
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Gadolinium-based material that can be cooled by varying magnetic …
The team measured how an external magnetic field affected this 'cubane' material as the temperature dropped. Below about 50 K, they found ... «Phys.Org, Aug 14»
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Solar power: Crystallographic clues
... molecule between the now dangling manganese ion and the Mn3CaOx cubane structure as the system makes the transition from S2 to S3. «spectroscopyNOW.com, Aug 14»
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Washington People: Andrew J. White
Wearing a lab coat, protective glasses and gloves, he raised the filter with his left hand and scraped crystallized cubane sodium carboxylate ... «Washington University in St. Louis News, Apr 14»

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