Crossword clues for hydrocarbon
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n. (context organic chemistry English) A compound consisting only of carbon and hydrogen atoms.
WordNet
n. an organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen
Wikipedia
In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon. Hydrocarbons from which one hydrogen atom has been removed are functional groups, called hydrocarbyls. Aromatic hydrocarbons (arenes), alkanes, alkenes, cycloalkanes and alkyne-based compounds are different types of hydrocarbons.
The majority of hydrocarbons found on Earth naturally occur in crude oil, where decomposed organic matter provides an abundance of carbon and hydrogen which, when bonded, can catenate to form seemingly limitless chains.
Usage examples of "hydrocarbon".
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It was a terrible thing to see, so close, so low, packed with chlorides, benzines, phenols, hydrocarbons, or whatever the precise toxic content.
I gathered that it is something like a polyhydric alcohol and something like a substituted hydrocarbon, and yet different from either in that it contains fluorin in loose combination.
It will put an end to the need for methane and oil mining on Earth, and completely realign political maps drawn by the scarcity of hydrocarbons.
Thin aromatic hydrocarbon, one part per billion in the room, catalyzes him.
The stranger, with a courteous flourish, led the sailors behind the girth of the motortruck, where bucket after bucket of black hydrocarbons showered into an already-creaking loading bin.
The furniture was all fake-mahogany-veneered particleboard, and the window would only open three inches, barely enough to let in the greasy, hydrocarbon air.
To dismiss another possibility, hydrocarbons are too vulnerable to photodissociation to be reasonable as major atmospheric constituents on close-in planets.
Frost sizzled as it hit his snowsuit, sending up clouds of hydrocarbon steam.
There were obnoxious smells such as ketones and mercaptans, and dangerous ones such as benzene and toluene and other aromatic hydrocarbons.
Because it is the refractory tars in which polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and some other carcinogens are concentrated.
That of hydrocarbons spoke of burning candles and ancient, leaky, oil-burning furnaces.
Only a few were so soaked with hydrocarbons that they could make the fire flare.
Bosnian housekeeper having employed a product that contained xylene and chlorinated hydrocarbons to clean some crayon-marks off a bleached-oak end table.
Two hundred years of burning hydrocarbons started the planet going greenhouse.