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To burn as a fuel (petrol, methane etc.), to make plastics, to cover roads, to make lubricant (don't laugh) and solvent waxes. Without hydrocarbons we would have no oil which is humans biggest fuel source.

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when burned, they mix with the oxygen to make water and carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide acts like a blanket and that is what global warming is.

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set on fire

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