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  2. Hydrocarbon - Wikipedia

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    In the fossil fuel industries, hydrocarbon refers to naturally occurring petroleum, natural gas and coal, or their hydrocarbon derivatives and purified forms. Combustion of hydrocarbons is the main source of the world's energy. Petroleum is the dominant raw-material source for organic commodity chemicals such as solvents and polymers.

  3. List of straight-chain alkanes - Wikipedia

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    1.122 064 990 122 11 × 10 37: C 82 H 166: n-dooctacontane 83 2.150 278 094 747 97 × 10 32: 3.578 584 997 560 67 × 10 37: C 83 H 168: n-trioctacontane 84 5.875 317 238 265 77 × 10 32: 1.141 724 657 744 27 × 10 38: C 84 H 170: n-tetraoctacontane 85 1.605 913 778 494 71 × 10 33: 3.643 883 155 873 11 × 10 38: C 85 H 172: n-pentaoctacontane ...

  4. Ethylene - Wikipedia

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    Ethylene (IUPAC name: ethene) is a hydrocarbon which has the formula C 2 H 4 or H 2 C=CH 2.It is a colourless, flammable gas with a faint "sweet and musky" odour when pure. [7] It is the simplest alkene (a hydrocarbon with carbon–carbon double bonds).

  5. Alkane - Wikipedia

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    [11] [12] Branched-chain alkanes are called isoparaffins. "Paraffin" is a general term and often does not distinguish between pure compounds and mixtures of isomers, i.e., compounds of the same chemical formula, e.g., pentane and isopentane. In IUPAC. The following trivial names are retained in the IUPAC system: isobutane for 2-methylpropane

  6. Acetylene - Wikipedia

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    Acetylene (systematic name: ethyne) is the chemical compound with the formula C 2 H 2 and structure H−C≡C−H.It is a hydrocarbon and the simplest alkyne. [8] This colorless gas is widely used as a fuel and a chemical building block.

  7. Indane - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 496-11-7 3D model ... It is a colorless liquid hydrocarbon. It is a petrochemical, a bicyclic compound.

  8. Cracking (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    Alkenes cause instability of hydrocarbon fuels. [9] Fluid catalytic cracking is a commonly used process, and a modern oil refinery will typically include a cat cracker, particularly at refineries in the US, due to the high demand for gasoline. [10] [11] [12] The process was first used around 1942 and employs a powdered catalyst. During WWII ...

  9. Tetrabromoethane - Wikipedia

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    1,1,2,2-Tetrabromoethane, or simply tetrabromoethane (TBE), is a halogenated hydrocarbon, chemical formula C 2 H 2 Br 4.Although three bromine atoms may bind to one of the carbon atoms creating 1,1,1,2-tetrabromoethane this is not thermodynamically favorable, so in practice tetrabromoethane is equal to 1,1,2,2-tetrabromoethane, where each carbon atom binds two bromine atoms.