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Re: Hydrocarbons
this thread makes me laugh.
What is a hydrocarbon?
Look around. Hydrocarbon-product right infront of you. Plastic.
paper, wood, some cloths, fules, everything organic basically, plastics, even synthetics are all hydrocarbons.
Aerosol that have CFC's which are ChloroFloro carbons, where Chlorine and Florine took the place of Hydrogen in the chain of carbon atoms.
Sugar is a hydrocarbon with a few oxygen atoms as well.
your basic hydrocarbon fules start with Methane, which is one Carbon and 4 Hydrogens, then Butane, which is two carbons and 6 Hydrogens, Ethane, 3 with 8, Tetrane, 4 with 10, pentance, 5 with 12, Hexane, 6 with 14, Heptane, 7 with 16, Octane, 8 with 18, Nontane 9 with 20...the list goes on and on.
A visual demonstration of the fules are as so
Methane (A gas at STP):
H
l
H-C-H
l
H
Butane (Gas at STP):
H H
l l
H-C-C-H
l l
H H
all the way up to something like Decane which would have 10 carbon and 22 hydrogen.
Then you get into branches such as 2,MethylHexane which would have a methane molicule in place of one of the hydrogens on the 2nd carbon atom in the string of Hexane.
And do confuse you even more yo ucan get into the cyclo's where the carbons form a circle and bond to eachother dropping oen of the hydrogens.
or you can have double bonds between the carbons droppong one of the hydrogens.
then other atoms can take the place of hydrogen in the chains an circles taking up however many bonds they have to take up from the carbon.
and so on and so forth. most things you see that arent metal are probably a hydrocarbon of somesort.
that is a quick run down, im sure some of the ones more advanced in chemistry than i can fill you in more if need be.
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