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What is hydocarbon?

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∙ 11y ago
Updated: 11/15/2022

A hydrocarbon is an organic compound that consists entirely of hydrogen and carbon. Some examples coal, petroleum and natural gas and paraffin.

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What are the uses for hydocarbon?

Petroleum oil and all its by-products are hydrocarbons.


What makes a satured hydrocarbon from an unsaturadted hydocarbon?

It is done by the process of Hydrogenation. Example:- C2H4 + H2 ---------> C2H6 Thus, ethene undergoes hydrogenation to form ethane


How is carbon dioxide given off when wax is burned?

wax is a hydocarbon( a compound composed of hydrogen and carbon only).all hydrocarbons give carbon-dioxide and oxygen on combustion cxHy + O2 ---> CO2 + H2


What is the definition of hydocarbon?

In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is a compound consisting of only carbon and hydrogen atoms. There are different types of hydrocarbons, such as saturated hydrocarbons, which include alkanes (e.g.- methane), unsaturated hydrocarbons, which include alkenes and alkynes (e.g.- ethylene and ethyne), cycloalkanes (e.g. - cyclopropane), and arenes, also known as aromatic hydrocarbons (e.g. - benzene).


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