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Hydrocarbon n. (Chem.) A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.

Hydrocarbon burner, Hydrocarbon furnace, Hydrocarbon stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.

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Etymology of 'Hydrocarbon'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... of Dietetics. To the layman the average discussion of food principles is, to say the least, confusing. Dealing largely, as it does, with unfamiliar terms like carbohydrate and hydrocarbon and calories, it is hard to translate into the terms of the potatoes left over from dinner and the vegetables we can afford to buy. But the practical deductions are not at all difficult to understand. Boiled down to their simplest terms, the essential principles may be stated in ...

— Outwitting Our Nerves - A Primer of Psychotherapy • Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury

... a hydrocarbon isolated from the fraction of coal-tar boiling at 260 deg. -270 deg. by M. P. E. Berthelot, who, in conjunction with Bardy, afterwards synthesized it from a-ethyl naphthalene (Ann. Chem. Phys., 1873, Yol. xxix.). ...

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Words linked to "Hydrocarbon" : bitumen, aromatic hydrocarbon, naphtha, ethane, kerosene, gas, dioxin, naphthalene, octane, aromatic compound, coal oil, indene, terpene, pyrene, chlorobenzene, provitamin, gasohol, kerosine