Descriptive name applied to petroleum products derived from paraffin base crude oil Gasoline, kerosene, mineral spirits and naphtha are typical aliphatic or "straight-chain" hydrocarbons
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, fat; fatty; applied to compounds having an openc-hain structure
The aliphatic compounds thus include not only the fatty acids and other derivatives of the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series