Chem. [f. Gr. τετρα- four + δέκα ten + -ANE 2 b.] The saturated hydrocarbon or paraffin of the 14-carbon series, C14H20, = tetradecyl hydride; a waxy solid.
1877. Watts, Fownes’ Chem. (ed. 12), II. 50. The boiling points and specific gravities of the higher paraffins of unknown structure … are as follows:… Tetradecane C14H30 Boiling point 236–240°.
So Tetradecene = tetradecylene. Tetradecenyl, the radical C14H27, as in tetradecenyl alcohol, C14H27.OH, t. aldehyde, etc. Tetradecenoic a. in tetradecenoic acid, C14H26O2, a liquid boiling in vacuo at 275° to 280°C.; t. aldchyde, C14H26O, an oil not solid at –20°C. Tetradecinene C14H26 = CMe:C.C11H23. Tetradecoic a, in t. acid, C14H28O2 = C5H11.CH(C7H15). CO2H, a liquid (not solid at –10°C.), got by the action of moist argentic oxide, Ag2O, on the aldehyde; tetradecoic aldehyde, C14H28O1, obtained in tables very soluble in alcohol, a product of the action of sodium on an ethereal solution of œnanthol. Tetradecyl or Tetradecatyl, the monatomic alcohol radical, C14H29, of this series; also attrib. = tetradecylic, as in tetradecyl alcohol. Hence Tetradecylic a., of or pertaining to this radical; so Tetradecylene, the olefine of this series, C14H28 = CH2:CH . C12H23, a liquid substance; also attrib. as in tetradecylene glycol.
1868. Watts, Dict. Chem., V. 728. Tetradecyl, or Tetradecatyl … also called Myristyl. The fourteenth term of the series of alcohol-radicles, CaH2a+1. Tetradecylic hydride, C14H30, is one of the constituents of American petroleum…. Tetradecylic or Myristic Alcohol, or Methal, C14H30O, is one of the constituents of spermaceti.
