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Carbon and Hydrogen Atoms
No. Hydrocarbons contain only Hydrogen and Carbon atoms. Think about it for a second, HYDRO-Carbon. HYDROGEN... Get it?
The ability of each carbon atom to form covalent bonds, including bonds to other carbon atoms. This makes possible chain hydrocarbons of any length.
There are carbon and hydrogen atoms present in hydrocarbons.
Saturated hydrocarbons
Compounds that contain ONLY carbon and hydrogen are named as 'hydrocarbons'. Some examples;_ Methane, Ethene, Octane. Alcohols and carboxylic acids are NOT hydrocarbons, because they also contain oxygen.
Hydrocarbons have only hydrogen and carbon atoms. They also burn well.
Saturated hydrocarbons have only single bonds between carbon atoms.
Hydrocarbons
Hydrocarbons contain both Carbon and Hydrogen.
These hydrocarbons are ethane, propane, butane.
Hydrogen and Carbon - as the name suggests! They are made up of just hydrogen and carbon atoms. Hydrocarbons in fossil fuels come from the organic matter of organisms which lived 300 million years ago under conditions of extreme pressure and temperature.