hex astylar

[Eng. hexastyl (e); -ar.] Arch .: Having six columns in front. hex-a-style, s. [Gr. hex a stylos, from hex =six, and stylos a pillar, a column.] Arch.: A portico or temple having six columns in front. hex-a-thy-rid-1-ŭm, s. [Greek hex =six, and Latinized dim in. from Gr. athyros without doors, open, unchecked.] Zool.: A genus of Scolecid a, order Trematoda. Hexathyridium venarum , called also Poly stoma sanguicola , has been found in the venous blood. hex-a-tom-ic, adj. [Gr. hex =six, and Eng. atomic.] Consisting of six atoms. hex atomic-alcohol, s. Chem.: An alcohol derived from a hydrocarbon by the replacement of six atoms of hydrogen respectively by the monad radical (OH)' hydroxyl, as mannite, C6H5(OH)6. hěx-ene, s. [Gr. hex =six; suff. -ene (Chem.) (q. v.).] Chem.: C6H12, hexylene. Hydrocarbons of the olefine series, containing six carbon atoms. Hydrocarbons having this formula can be obtained by the action of alcoholic potash on hexyl chloride. Also by action of alcoholic potash on dimethyl isopropyl carbimyl iodide. It boils at 73°. ( Watts : Dict . Chem.)