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HYDROCARBON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hydrocarbon" is a kind of...):
organic compound (any compound of carbon and another element or a radical)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hydrocarbon"):
provitamin (vitamin precursor; a substance that is converted into a vitamin in animal tissues)
terpene (an unsaturated hydrocarbon obtained from plants)
gas oil (an oil formed through distillation of petroleum of intermediate boiling range and viscosity)
octane (any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent)
pyrene (a pale yellow crystalline hydrocarbon C16H10 extracted from coal tar)
naphthalene (a white crystalline strong-smelling hydrocarbon made from coal tar or petroleum and used in organic synthesis and as a fumigant in mothballs)
naphtha (any of various volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures; used chiefly as solvents)
butadiene (a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; used in making synthetic rubbers)
bitumen (any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons)
bottled gas; liquefied petroleum gas (hydrocarbon gases, usually propane or butane, kept under pressure)
C2H6; ethane (a colorless odorless alkane gas used as fuel)
dioxin (any of several toxic or carcinogenic hydrocarbons that occur as impurities in herbicides)
cymene (any of three isotopes of a colorless aromatic liquid hydrocarbon occurring in the volatile oil of cumin and thyme and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins)
indene (a colorless liquid hydrocarbon extracted from petroleum or coal tar and used in making synthetic resins)
aromatic hydrocarbon (a hydrocarbon that contains one or more benzene rings that are characteristic of the benzene series of organic compounds)
coal oil; kerosene; kerosine; lamp oil (a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters)
gas; gasolene; gasoline; petrol (a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines)
gasohol (a gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn)
aromatic compound (a hydrocarbon containing one or more benzene rings that are characteristic of the benzene series of compounds)
chlorobenzene (a colorless volatile flammable liquid with an almond odor that is made from chlorine and benzene; used as a solvent and in the production of phenol and DDT and other organic compounds)
Context examples:
A class of chemicals that are products of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolism.
(Phenanthrene Tetraol, NCI Thesaurus)
A 40-carbon hydrocarbon precursor of carotenoids radiolabeled to carbon C 13 and potentially used for tracer purposes of phytoene in vivo.
(Carbon C 13 Phytoene, NCI Thesaurus)
An oily, unstable, colorless, chlorinated hydrocarbon with a penetrating odor.
(Benzotrichloride, NCI Thesaurus)
Aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator 2 (717 aa, ~79 kDa) is encoded by the human ARNT2 gene.
(Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Nuclear Translocator 2, NCI Thesaurus)
A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and metabolite of benzo(a)pyrene with potent cytotoxic and mutagenic properties.
(Benzo[a]pyrene trans-7,8-Dihydrodiol, NCI Thesaurus)
All of these gases belong to the subfamily of hydrocarbons known as aromatics.
(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)
This allele, which encodes aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator protein, plays a role in the modulation of the transcriptional response to halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons.
(ARNT wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
These include complex hydrocarbons previously only seen at high northern latitudes.
(Cassini Sees Dramatic Seasonal Changes on Titan, NASA)
In this unique cycle, the hydrocarbon molecules evaporate, condense into clouds and rain back onto the ground.
(Dust Storms on Titan Spotted for the First Time, NASA)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found deep, steep-sided canyons on Saturn's moon Titan that are flooded with liquid hydrocarbons.
(Cassini Finds Flooded Canyons on Titan, NASA)
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