Hyphenation of alkanes

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word alkanes? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

alka-nes

Definitions of alkanes:

1.	A series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

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