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Example sentences for "hydrocarbon"

Lexicographically close words:
hydride; hydriodate; hydriodic; hydro; hydrobromic; hydrocarbons; hydrocele; hydrocephalus; hydrochlorate; hydrochloric
  1. Hofmann continued the investigation, and established their recognition as ammonia in which one or more hydrogen atoms had been replaced by hydrocarbon radicals, thus formulating the "ammonia type.

  2. It will be seen that each type depends upon a specific radical or atom, and the copulation of this character with any hydrocarbon radical (open or cyclic) gives origin to a compound of the same class.

  3. Deferring the detailed discussion of cyclic or ringed hydrocarbons, a correlation of the various types or classes of compounds which may be derived from hydrocarbon nuclei will now be given.

  4. It follows therefore that two hydrocarbon radicals are bound to the carbon monoxide residue with the same strength as they combine to form a paraffin.

  5. Consider now the combustion of a hydrocarbon of the general formula C{n}H{2m}.

  6. Pertaining to, or designating, certain derivatives of phosphorous acid containing a hydrocarbon radical, and analogous to the sulphonic acid.

  7. Pertaining to, or designating, certain acids analogous to the phosphonic acids, but containing two hydrocarbon radicals, and derived from the secondary phosphines by oxidation.

  8. An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar.

  9. A hydrocarbon obtained by decomposition of certain piperidine derivatives.

  10. A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series, metameric with mesitylene and cumene, found in coal tar, and obtained as a colorless liquid.

  11. A hydrocarbon radical regarded as an essential residue of propine and allied compounds.

  12. The hypothetical hydrocarbon radical CH, regarded as an essential residue of certain organic compounds.

  13. A hydrocarbon radical formerly supposed to exist in œnanthic acid, now known to be identical with heptyl.

  14. A hydrocarbon radical regarded as the essential residue of naphthalene.

  15. A peculiar hydrocarbon occuring as an ingredient of Caucasian petroleum.

  16. A colorless liquid hydrocarbon resembling oil of turpentine, obtained by dehydrating menthol.

  17. A colorless liquid hydrocarbon of the octylene series, occurring in Caucasian petroleum.

  18. This was shown in the year 1860, or thereabout, by many methods, and is the fundamental conception of the structure of hydrocarbon compounds.

  19. If sodium does not directly displace the hydrogen in hydrocarbons, still by indirect means compounds may be obtained which contain sodium and hydrocarbon groups.

  20. A large number of such generalised reactions, showing reaction by equal volumes, occur in the case of the hydrocarbon derivatives, because many of these compounds are volatile.

  21. Organic acids when heated with caustic soda give up to it the elements of carbonic anhydride, forming sodium carbonate, and separating that hydrocarbon group which exists, in combination with carbonic anhydride, in the organic acid.

  22. The following are the most generally known of the oxygenised but non-nitrogenous hydrocarbon derivatives.

  23. A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series obtained as a colorless liquid by the distillation of camphor with zinc chloride.

  24. A hydrocarbon obtained from coal-tar residues, and remarkable for its intense yellowish green fluorescence.

  25. The comet had a multiple nucleus and a hydrocarbon tail of the second type, nearly a hundred million miles in length.

  26. Its coma presented the development of jets and envelopes in remarkable perfection, and its tail was of the secondary or hydrocarbon type, but accompanied by two faint streamer tails, nearly tangential to the main tail and of the hydrogen type.

  27. It is volatilized by the heat of the flame into a mixture of hydrogen and hydrocarbon gases and these are consumed under the heat of the process of consumption by the oxygen in the air.

  28. In this less luminous part the air is combining with the hydrogen of the hydrocarbon which is being vaporized and disintegrated.

  29. Asphalts and bitumens include a wide variety of hydrocarbon materials, such as gilsonite, grahamite, elaterite, ozokerite, etc.

  30. And there's a thin sprinkling of hydrocarbon molecules out there too.

  31. Hydrocarbon appears ordinarily as methane gas, but out there it rings up as CH.

  32. A column of heated air or vapor rising from a chimney is well known to be a conductor for lightning; the rise of hydrocarbon vapors is illustrated by the balloon.

  33. From every oil tank, according to our theory, there is a constant escape of light hydrocarbon vapor, which forms a permanent cloud or column, rising to a great height above the tanks, far above any rod that could be erected.

  34. It is possible to increase the inflammability of alcohol by mixing with it some hydrocarbon such as gasoline, benzene or acetylene.

  35. One of the simplest of these hydrocarbon derivatives is glycerin, the same as you use for sunburn.

  36. Despite resumption of several interesting hydrocarbon and minerals exploration activities, it will take several years before production can materialize.

  37. Investments in developing hydrocarbon resources are likely to maintain growth and export earnings.

  38. Mineral or hydrocarbon oils do not contain these fat acids, and so cannot possibly, even with high-pressure steam, corrode the boiler metal.

  39. Di-nitro Benzene~ is obtained by treating a charge of the hydrocarbon benzene with double the quantity of mixed acids in two operations, or rather in two stages, the second lot of acid being run in directly after the first.

  40. The hydrocarbon gas which develops so freely in these mines, forms, when combined with atmospheric air, an explosive which takes fire upon coming into contact with a flame, and kills every one within its reach.

  41. Part of the carbon is combined with hydrogen to form hydrocarbon that may be driven off when heated, and which forms the volatile portion of the coal.

  42. The gas generated from any hydrocarbon will burn completely, only after being mixed with air or other incombustible gas, in proportions such as will completely oxidize the carbon contained in the fuel.

  43. Blue gas may be rendered luminous by the addition of some hydrocarbon that will liberate free carbon in the flame when burned.

  44. The other constituent is a hydrocarbon C15H24, of which the distilling point differs from that of eugenol, and which solidifies only with intense cold.

  45. The phenomena of substitution in hydrocarbon compounds like the petroleum oils were studied by Laurent who proposed a theory of basic nuclei.

  46. It varies considerably with the description of hydrocarbon employed, and its market price.

  47. The practical effect of carburetting acetylene with hydrocarbon vapours will be shown in Chapter X.

  48. It is well known that many hydrocarbon vapours, such as the vapour of benzene or of naphthalene, have a highly toxic action on low organisms, and the destructive effect of acetylene on phylloxera may be akin to this action.

  49. The safely permissible mixtures are (1) air with less hydrocarbon vapour than constitutes an explosive mixture, and (2) air with more hydrocarbon vapour than constitutes an explosive mixture.

  50. Benzene" is the proper name for the most volatile hydrocarbon derived from coal-tar, whose formula is C6H6.

  51. But the generating apparatus for such air-gas must be equipped with some governing or controlling device which will ensure the proportion of hydrocarbon vapour in the mixture never falling below, say, 7 per cent.

  52. It is, therefore, a hydrocarbon of a very high degree of unsaturation.

  53. Lycopersicin= (or lycopin) is a hydrocarbon pigment having the same formula as carotin.

  54. Illuminating gas=, and similar hydrocarbon gases, kill plants when present in the atmosphere in as little as one part per million.

  55. It is clear, however, that they are six-membered hydrocarbon rings, with additional hydrocarbon groups attached to one or more of the carbon atoms in the ring.

  56. They all burn hydrocarbons instead of coal, and the new hydrocarbon fuels would disappear in the water.

  57. It was one of the hydrocarbon compounds, and from the odor which came to me, I think my loss of memory may have come that way.

  58. Cailletet devised a cheaper process, by employing another hydrocarbon that rises from the mud of marshes, and is called formene.

  59. They form a connected hydrocarbon series, analogous to the coal series.

  60. Marine algae were present, however, so that it cannot be affirmed that the hydrocarbon of the earlier Paleozoic rocks came entirely from animal organisms.

  61. These tails are formed of hydrocarbon gas.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hydrocarbon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.