hydrocarbon
碳氢化合物,烃类,油气,碳化氢
Definitions
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- : any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH4, an alkene, ethylene, C2H4, an alkyne, acetylene, C2H2, or an aromatic compound, benzene, C6H6.
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Canada’s oilsands are especially dirtyFossil fuels are hydrocarbons, which is just the chemical term for a molecule made up of hydrogen and carbon.
The process produces hydrocarbon gases too, which could be used to generate heat to run the reaction at a recycling plant, Scott says.
The resulting hydrocarbon molecules can serve as a jet fuel.
The fossil fuels they burn to create all these emissions are hydrocarbons, which means they are made up of a combination of carbon and hydrogen.
There are many good alternatives now to burning fossilized hydrocarbons.
The allegation concerns hydrocarbon releases from the wastewater system at the unloading facility.
Its offshore territory is part of the hydrocarbon-rich Levant Basin.
The hydrocarbon bonanza in the United States gives Obama a significant opportunity.
That horizontal segment allows the well to have far greater exposure to the hydrocarbon reservoir.
In Denmark, the poster child for wind power, neither carbon dioxide emissions nor hydrocarbon consumption have been reduced.
Chemically, the camphors may be divided into two main groups, according to the nature of the corresponding hydrocarbon or terpene.
One of the chemical compounds here indicated is a hydrocarbon similar to that found in comets.
Hence it is a hydrocarbon of the terpene series, having the general formula CnH2n-4.
The undissolved hydrocarbon is similarly purified by fractional distillation, and furnishes the solid crystalline naphthalene.
The greater portion of the hydrocarbon is contained in the carbolic oil, and is separated and purified in the manner described.