• Sterane

    Noun

    sterane

    (plural steranes)
    1. (organic compound) A tetracyclic hydrocarbon related to the steroids
      • February 5, At right, values in parentheses represent a measure of relative signal intensity for the steranes in acquired MRM chromatograms (though absolute abundances are determined from individual peak areas) and the numbers beneath are the masses (in daltons) of the ion transitions (molecular weight fragment ion) used in MRM GC-MS in each case.
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