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ShareIn chemistry, a hydrocarbon is any chemical compound that consists only of the elements carbon (C) and hydrogen (H).
They all contain a carbon backbone, called a carbon skeleton, and have hydrogen atoms attached to that backbone.
For more information about the topic Hydrocarbon, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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