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n. (plural of hydrocarbon English)
Usage examples of "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.
Like all ground vehicles, the car ran on compressed hydrocarbons, and its refill cylinders would last for quite a while.
Inches from my nose, the top layer, sooty with hydrocarbons, gave way to one of dirty yellow, then one of heavy cream.