Hydrocarbons are used for natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas(used in lighters and in propane tanks), petrol, diesel fuel and heating oil.
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In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon. With relation to chemical terminology, aromatic hydrocarbons or arenes, alkanes, alkenes and al...
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Hydrocarbons derived from petroleum, natural gas, or coal are essential in many ways to modern life and its quality. The bulk of the world’s hydrocarbons is used for fuels, electrical power generation, and heating.
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1. an organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen
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A program was conducted to determine the amounts of hydrocarbons emitted when selected pesticides are applied to various substrates. An initial laboratory effort was made to establish the relative evaporation rates of 20 test materials under different environmental conditions.
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A method for purifying a hydrocarbon fluid comprising residual hydrocarbons or a blend of residual hydrocarbons with distilled hydrocarbons, to be used as fuel for a diesel engine or a gas turbine, the hydrocarbon fluid containing contaminants colloidally dispersed as stable micelles, the method comprising ...
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The nitroderivatives of general formula (I) can also be used for marking gaseous hydrocarbons compressed in a liquid phase at low pressure (indicatively at a pressure lower than 10 bars), such as propane, butane and GPL. The possible extraction of the nitroderivative of general formula (I) from the above hydrocarbons in...
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United States Patent 2712519 ... US Patent References:; Dewaxing hydrocarbon oils; - - 2049059; Recovery of solvents from oils; - - 2276089; Purification of crude ethylene dichloride; - - 2589212; Method of recovering selective solvents; ... Alfred, Hoppe ;
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After the application of initiating doses of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, the incorporation of thymidine-3H, cytidine-3H, and leucine-3H into DNA, RNA, and protein, respectively, in mouse skin epidermis was determined. ... Skin tumor-promoting activity of benzoyl peroxide, a widely used free radical-generating compound;
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Hydrocarbons are chemical compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon. Hydrocarbons usually have a carbon skeleton to which the hydrogen atoms are attached. The simplest hydrocarbon is methane, with one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms...
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