Definition of Hydrocarbons

1. Noun. (plural of hydrocarbon) ¹

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Definition of Hydrocarbons

1. hydrocarbon [n] - See also: hydrocarbon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrocarbons

hydrobranchiata
hydrobromate
hydrobromates
hydrobromic
hydrobromic acid
hydrobromide
hydrobromides
hydrocalcite
hydrocalcites
hydrocalumite
hydrocalycosis
hydrocarbon
hydrocarbonaceous
hydrocarbonate
hydrocarbonates
hydrocarbons (current term)
hydrocarbostyril
hydrocarboxylation
hydrocarboxylic
hydrocarburet
hydrocarburets
hydrocarbyl
hydrocarbylene
hydrocarbylenes
hydrocarbylidene
hydrocarbylidenes
hydrocarbylidyne
hydrocarbylidynes
hydrocarbyls
hydrocast

Literary usage of Hydrocarbons

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Niosh Manual of Analytical Methods: Sampling and Analytical Methods for edited by Peter M. Eller (1994)
"... soluble compounds, 7056 Barium in urine, see METALS in urine, 8310 B[b]F, see see POLYNUCLEAR AROMATIC hydrocarbons (HPLC), 5506; 5515 (GO Benzaldehyde, ..."

2. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain). (1908)
"Addition products with ester«, aromatic hydrocarbons, ligbt petroleum and un- ... Gomberg, M. und Cone, L. II. Ie, :1 .-¡33-1341). hydrocarbons ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1868)
"hydrocarbons in which one atom of carbon is combined with four other carbon atoms.—Of this group only one member is known, ..."

4. Economic Geology by Heinrich Ries (1910)
"The hydrocarbons are divisible primarily into a number of regular series, ... Of the above formulas, the first represents the paraffin hydrocarbons, ..."

5. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1886)
"hydrocarbons are conveniently grouped according to the relative number of atoms ... It will be seen that the generic formula of each series of hydrocarbons ..."

6. Economic Geology by Heinrich Ries (1916)
"The hydrocarbons are divisible primarily into a number of regular series, ... Of the above formulas, the first represents the paraffin hydrocarbons, ..."

7. The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry by Society of Chemical Industry (1884)
"Referring in the first place to the illuminating hydrocarbons, it will be seen that although the proportion in which they are present has generally ..."

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