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  1. Any organic chemical compound that is made up
  2. of chains of carbon atoms, rather than rings,
  3. as in cyclic compounds. The chains may be
  4. linear, as in hexane C6H14, or branched, as
  5. in 2-propanol (isopropanol) (CH3)2CHOH.
  6.