octane scale

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octane scale [′äk‚tān ‚skāl]

(engineering)

Series of arbitrary numbers from 0 to 120.3 used to rate the octane number of a gasoline;n-heptane is 0 octane, isooctane is 100, and isooctane + 6 milliliters TEL (tetraethyllead) is 120.3.

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