Hydrocarbon
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A hydrocarbon is a chemical compound containing only hydrogen and carbon.[1][2] Naturally occuring hydrocarbons, in the form of crude oil and natural gas, have been of immense industrial and economic importance since the nineteenth century.
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References
- ↑ Glossary of class names of organic compounds and reactivity intermediates based on structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995). Pure Appl. Chem. 1995, 67 (8-9), 1307–75 at 1341. DOI: 10.1351/pac199567081307.
- ↑ hydrocarbons, <http://goldbook.iupac.org/H02889.html> (accessed 3 April 2011), Compendium of Chemical Terminology Internet edition; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
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