hydrocarbon

English

Etymology

From hydro- +‎ carbon.

Noun

hydrocarbon (plural hydrocarbons)

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

   Hyponyms: alkane, alkene, alkyne, cycloalkane, cycloalkene, arene

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Chofen planetary description:

     Chofen is an unusually small hydrogen-helium gas giant, with traces of sulphur and hydrocarbons in the atmosphere. The Alliance surveyor ship Ibn Battuta provided inconclusive evidence of hydrocarbon life in the atmosphere (over 1000 meters below the cloud tops), where pressure compresses Chofen's hydrogen into a liquid state.

Derived terms

• Clar's hydrocarbon
• fluorochlorohydrocarbon
• hydrocarbonaceous
• hydrocarbonic
• multi-hydrocarbon
• non-hydrocarbon
• Platonic hydrocarbon
• polyaromatic hydrocarbon
• polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon

 

Translations

compound of carbon and hydrogen

• Asturian: hidrocarburu m
• Basque: hidrokarburo
• Bulgarian: въглеводород (bg) m (vǎglevodorod)
• 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／烃 (zh) (tīng), 碳氫化合物／碳氢化合物 (zh) (tànqīnghuàhéwù)

• Czech: uhlovodík (cs) m
• Danish: kulbrinte (da) c, karbonhydrid n
• Dutch: koolwaterstof (nl) c
• Esperanto: hidrokarbono
• Faroese: kolvetni n
• Finnish: hiilivety (fi)
• French: hydrocarbure (fr) m
• Galician: hidrocarburo (gl) m
• German: Kohlenwasserstoff (de) m
• Greek: υδρογονάνθρακας (el) m (ydrogonánthrakas)
• Hindi: उदप्रांगार (udaprāṅgār)
• Hungarian: szénhidrogén (hu)
• Icelandic: vetniskol n, kolvatnsefni n, kolvetni (is) n
• Indonesian: hidrokarbon (id)
• Irish: hidreacarbón m
• Italian: idrocarburo (it) m
• Japanese: 炭化水素 (ja) (たんかすいそ, tanka suiso)
• Kazakh: көмірсутек (kömırsutek)
• Khmer: អ៊ីដ្រូកាបូ (ʼiidroukaabou), ឧទង្គារ (ʼŏtôngkéar)
• Korean: 탄화수소(炭化水素) (ko) (tanhwasuso)
• Latvian: ogļūdeņradis m
• Malay: hidrokarbon (ms)
• Maori: waiwaro
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hydrokarbon (no) n

  Nynorsk: hydrokarbon n

• Occitan: idrocarbur (oc) m
• Pannonian Rusyn: угльоводонїк m inan (uhlʹovodonjik)
• Persian: هیدروکربن (fa) (hidrokarbon)
• Polish: węglowodór (pl) m
• Portuguese: hidrocarboneto (pt) m
• Romanian: hidrocarbură (ro) f, hidrocarburi f pl
• Russian: углеводоро́д (ru) m (uglevodoród)
• Slovak: uhľovodík
• Slovene: ogljikovodik m
• Spanish: hidrocarburo (es) m
• Swedish: kolväte (sv) n
• Thai: ไฮโดรคาร์บอน (th) (hai-droo-kaa-bɔ̂n)
• Turkish: hidrokarbon (tr)
• Ukrainian: вуглево́день m (vuhlevódenʹ)
• Vietnamese: hiđrocacbon
• Welsh: hydrocarbon (cy) m

See also

• aliphatic
• aromatic
• petroleum