hydrocarbon
A compound consisting only of carbon and hydrogen atoms.
A kind of
- organic compound
Kinds of hydrocarbon
- aromatic compound
- gasoline
- kerosene
- aromatic hydrocarbon
- ethane
- liquefied petroleum gas
- butadiene
- naphthalene
Related words
- halohydrocarbon
- nonhydrocarbon
- polyhydrocarbon
- non-hydrocarbon
- polyaromatic hydrocarbon
- polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
- fluorochlorohydrocarbon
- hydrocarbonaceous
- hydrocarbonic
- Clar's hydrocarbon
- multi-hydrocarbon
- Platonic hydrocarbon
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This definition is adapted from “hydrocarbon” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.