Hydrocarbons

Patrick Joseph Kluyber-Andrew Emanuel Ritchey-Cory Christopher Myers

Hydrocarbons- Any of numerous organic compounds that contain only carbon and hydrogen. __http://www.answers.com/topic/hydrocarbon__

Ex: benzene, methane, propane, butane, ethene, hexane

Hydrocarbons are organic compounds made up of two elements which are Hydrogen H and Carbon C. All Hydrocarbons fall under three categories; Saturated Hydrocarbons- Unsaturated Hydrocarbons- Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Charles Adolphe Wurtz is one of the chemist that founded Hydrocarbons.

1. Are Hydrocarbons man made or found in the earth? 2. Hydrocarbons are a compound? True or False 3. What are the three different types of Hydrocarbons? 4. What can Hydrocarbons be used for? 5. What two gases are mixed together to form Hydrocarbons?