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What are types of hydrocarbons?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

They can be open chain "acyclic/aliphatic" or closed chain "ring/cyclic" (carbon chains). Openhain is again of different types, saturated ie.only single bonds or unsturated ie.double or thriple bonds. Cyclic hydrocarbons can be monocyclic or polycyclic

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