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hydrocarbons

hydrocarbons is the plural of hydrocarbon.

Meaning of hydrocarbon

Noun

hydrocarbon (plural hydrocarbons)

  1. A compound consisting only of carbon and hydrogen atoms.
    • Chofen is an unusually small hydrogen-helium gas giant, with traces of sulphur and hydrocarbons in the atmosphere. The Alliance surveyor ship Ibn Battuta provided inconclusive evidence of hydrocarbon life in the atmosphere (over 1000 meters below the cloud tops), where pressure compresses Chofen's...2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Chofen planetary description

Phrases with hydrocarbons

Questions about hydrocarbons

What is hydrocarbons the plural of?
Hydrocarbons is the plural of hydrocarbon.

Words near hydrocarbons in the dictionary

  1. hydrocarbonic
  2. hydrocarbonization
  3. hydrocarbonized
  4. hydrocarbonoclastic
  5. hydrocarbonous
  6. hydrocarbons
  7. hydrocarbonyl
  8. hydrocarbonylation
  9. hydrocarbonyls
  10. hydrocarbostyril
  11. hydrocarboxylation

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