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Hydrocarbons are the organic compounds containing molecules with carbon and hydrogen.

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What elements do organic compounds called alcohols contain?

carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen


What is the difference between alochol and oil?

Both alcohols and oil are organic compounds. The hydrocarbons in crude oil are mostly alkanes, cycloalkanes and various aromatic hydrocarbons, and tend not to contain oxygen, nitrogen, etc. Alcohols DO contain oxygen, in the form of the functional -OH alcoholic group. Alcohols are more reactive than the compounds in oil.


Which class of organic compounds can be represents as r-oh?

Alcohols.


Organic compounds which are sulfur analogs of alcohols are referred to as?

Thiols


Which class of organic compounds can be represented as R--OH?

Alcohols.


What are the organic compound and inorganic compound?

In general organic contains carbon molecules and/or those related to life. It is the chemistry of carbon containing compounds. Inorganic is everything else and generally do not contain carbon (with some exceptions).


Organic compounds are found in what food?

All foods contain organic compounds.


What is an organic compound contain?

All the sugars and carbohydrates as well as all alcohols, glycols, carboxylic acids and ketones are organic compounds containing oxygen. So C2H5OH ethanol does for example.


What Discribes organic compounds?

Organic compounds are compounds that contain carbon.


How is alchohol classified?

Alcohols are organic compounds with the functional group -OH.


Does water only dissolve inorganic compounds?

Water can dissolve organic compounds that are capable of hydrogen bonding. This would be organic compounds that contain a hydroxy group or amines. Remember that amines will not form hydrogen bonds in aromatic groups and their solubility in water decreases with increase in carbon atoms.


How do organic compounds have a polar-covalent bond?

Organic molecules that contain atoms with a higher/lower electronegativity than C will contain polar covalent bonds. Obvious examples are molecules with O atoms e.g. alcohols, ketones, ethers.