adamantane

[ ad-uh-man-teyn ]
/ ˌæd əˈmæn teɪn /

noun Chemistry.

a white crystalline alicyclic hydrocarbon, C10H16, consisting of four fused cyclohexane rings, with the carbon atoms arranged as in the diamond lattice.
Compare amantadine.

Origin of adamantane

< French; see adamant, -ane; so called from the diamondlike arrangement of the carbon atoms

Words nearby adamantane

adam's cup, adam's-needle, adam-and-eve, adama, adamant, adamantane, adamantine, adamantine membrane, adamantinoma, adamawa, adamawa massif