alane

aluminium +‎ -ane

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæl.aɪn/

alane (plural alanes)

1. (inorganic chemistry) Aluminium hydride, AlH₃.
2. (organic chemistry) Any organic derivative of this compound.

• This is the current IUPAC name, but is to be replaced by alumane because the systematically derived name of the -AlH₂ group would be alanyl which is already used as a derivative of alanine.

• Leana, aneal

alane (not comparable)

1. alone

alane (not comparable)

1. alone

From Middle English alane.

alane

1. alone
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 23:

     proo'th, y'at wee alane needeth ye giftes o'generale rights,

     proves that we alone stood in need of the enjoyment of common privileges,

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 114