Hydrocarbon A compound that contains only

Hydrocarbon A compound that contains only carbon and hydrogen. 

O hydrocarbon a compound that contains carbon and hydrogen only... 

A compound that contains only single chemical bonds between the carbon atoms present. Unsaturated hydrocarbons contains double bonds between two adjacent carbon atoms, e.g. H2C=CH2. Many of these double bonds in a compound make the compound polyunsaturated. This occurs in some natural fats. 

Saturated hydrocarbon (Section 4.1) A compound that contains only C—C and C—H o bonds and no rings, thus having the maximum number of hydrogen atoms per carbon. 

A hydrocarbon is a compound that contains only carbon and hydrogen. Its empirical formula can be determined by using the combustion train shown in Figure 2.3. In this device, a known mass of the hydrocarbon is burned completely in oxygen. 

Many compounds are made of only carbon and hydrogen. A compound that contains only carbon and hydrogen atoms is called a hydrocarbon. The simplest hydrocarbon is methane, the primary component of natural gas. If you have a gas stove or gas furnace in your home, methane usually is the fuel that is burned in these appliances. Methane consists of a single carbon atom covalently bonded to four hydrogen atoms. The formula for methane is CH. Figure 2 shows a model of the methane molecule and its structural formula. In a structural formula, the line between one atom and another atom represents a pair of electrons shared between the two atoms. This pair forms a single bond. Methane contains four single bonds. 

A hydrocarbon is a compound that contains only carbon and hydrogen. An alkane is a saturated hydrocarbon and... 

HYDROCARBONS are compounds that contain only carbon and hydrogen. A subdivision of hydrocarbons is the ALKANES. The carbon atoms in alkanes have no multiple bonds and form only chains, not cycles. 

Compounds that contain only hydrogen and carbon are called hydrocarbons. The hydrocarbons that have only single bonds all have similar chemistry and they are called, as a family, the saturated hydrocarbons. If there are carbon-carbon double bonds, the reactivity is much enhanced. Hence hydrocarbons containing one or more double bonds are named as a distinct family, unsaturated hydrocarbons. Both saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons can occur in chain-like structures or in cyclic structures. Each of these families will be considered. 

We have already remarked that ethane is a member of a family of compounds called the saturated hydrocarbons. This term identifies compounds that contain only carbon and hydrogen in which all bonds to carbon are single bonds formed with hydrogen or other carbon atoms. They occur in chains, branched chains, and cyclic structures. 

A hydrocarbon is a compound that consists only of carbon and hydrogen atoms. Each contains a skeleton of carbon atoms bonded to varying numbers of hydrogen atoms. Hydrocarbons include alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, and aromatic hydrocarbons. 

Benzene, ethane, and ethylene are just three of a large number of hydrocarbons—compounds that contain only carbon and hydrogen. Show how the following data are consistent with the law of multiple proportions. 

Although coal combustion produces substantially greater air pollution problems than does oil or natural gas combustion, because of its great abundance in the United States and other countries (such as Russia), there has been renewed interest in developing technology to burn coal more cleanly. However, all fossil fuels consist mainly of hydrocarbons (compounds that contain only carbon and hydrogen), which, upon complete combustion, yield carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas. 

How to use the mass of the molecular ion to propose molecular formulas for an unknown is shown in Sample Problem 13.2. In this process, keep in mind the following useful fact. Hydrocarbons like methane (CH4) and hexane (CgHiJ, as well as compounds that contain only C, H, and O atoms, always have a molecular ion with an even mass. An odd molecular ion indicates that a compound has an odd number of nitrogen atoms. 

A combustion reaction occurs when a hydrocarbon, which is an organic compound that contains only hydrogen and carbon, reacts with oxygen to produce water and carbon dioxide. In some ways, combustion reactions are the easiest of the types of chemical reactions to identify, because oxygen is always a reactant and the products are always carbon dioxide and water. The general form for a combustion reaction is shown here hydrocarbon + oxygen carbon dioxide + water... 

Organic compounds that contain only carbon and hydrogen are called hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbon molecules may be divided into the classes of cyclic and open-chain depending on whether they contain a ring of carbon atoms. Open-chain molecules may be divided into branched or straight-chain categories. 

The name of even the most complex organic com-poimd is based on the name of a hydrocarbon, an organic compound that contains only the elements hydrogen and carbon. Hydrocarbons occur naturally in fossil fuels such as natural gas and petroleum and are used mainly as fuels and the raw materials for making other organic compounds. 

We ll begin the chapter with a brief survey of various kinds of hydrocarbons— compounds that contain only carbon and hydrogen—introduce some functional groups, then return to hydrocarbons to discuss alkanes in some detail. The names of alkanes may seem strange at first, but they form the foundation for the most widely accepted system of organic nomenclature. The fundamentals of this nomenclature system, the lUPAC rules, constitute one of the main topics of this chapter. 

Methane, ethane, and propane are hydrocarbons, compounds that contain only carbon and hydrogen. Fossil fuels that we burn to heat our homes, cook our food, and power our cars, are primarily hydrocarbons. For example, natural gas is a mixture of hydrocarbons with from one to four carbons, and gasoline contains hydrocarbon molecules with from six to twelve carbons. Like the hydrocarbons described above, many of the important compounds in nature contain a backbone of carbon-carbon bonds. These compounds are called organic compounds, and the study of carbon-based compounds is called organic chemistry. 

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