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Hydrocarbon

Hyˊdro-car′bon

,

Noun.

[

Hydro-

, 2 +

carbon

.]

(Chem.)

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

Hydrocarbon burner

,

furnace

,

stove

,

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

Definition 2024

hydrocarbon

hydrocarbon

English

Noun

hydrocarbon ‎(plural hydrocarbons)

(organic chemistry) A compound consisting only of carbon and hydrogen atoms.

Derived terms

Translations

compound of carbon and hydrogen

Asturian: hidrocarburu m
Basque: hidrokarburo
Catalan: hidrocarbur m
Chinese:

Cantonese: 烴, 烃 ‎(ting¹), 碳氫化合物, 碳氢化合物 ‎(taan³ hing¹ faa³ hap⁶ mat⁶)

Mandarin: 烴 (zh), 烃 (zh) ‎(tīng), 碳氫化合物 (zh), 碳氢化合物 (zh) ‎(tànqīnghuàhéwù)
Czech: uhlovodík (cs) m
Danish: kulbrinte (da) c, karbonhydrid n
Dutch: koolwaterstof (nl) c
Esperanto: hidrokarbono
Finnish: hiilivety (fi)
French: hydrocarbure (fr) m
Galician: hidrocarburo m
German: Kohlenwasserstoff (de) m
Greek: υδρογονάνθρακας (el) m ‎(ydrogonánthrakas)
Hindi: उदप्रांगार ‎(udaprāṅgār)

Icelandic: vetniskol n, kolvatnsefni n, kolvetni (is) n
Irish: hidreacarbón m
Japanese: 炭化水素 (ja) ‎(たんかすいそ, tankasuiso)
Latvian: ogļūdeņradis m
Malay: hidrokarbon, hidrokarbon
Maori: waiwaro
Norwegian:

Bokmål: hydrokarbon (no) n

Nynorsk: hydrokarbon n
Occitan: idrocarbur m
Polish: węglowodór m
Portuguese: hidrocarboneto (pt) m
Romanian: hidrocarbură (ro) f, hidrocarburi f pl
Russian: углеводоро́д (ru) m ‎(uglevodoród)
Slovene: ogljikovodik m
Spanish: hidrocarburo (es) m
Swedish: kolväte (sv) n
Turkish: hidrokarbon (tr)

Hyponyms

See also