Higher alkane

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Higher alkanes refer to alkanes with a high number of carbon atoms. There does not exist a formal definition for when an alkane is classified as a 'higher alkane', but one definition distinguishes the higher alkanes as the n-alkanes that are solid under room temperature.^{[according to whom?]}