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hydrocarbon

noun

Etymology

From hydro- + carbon.

  1. derived from *kerh₃-✻ — “to burn”
  2. derived from carbō — “charcoal, coal”
  3. borrowed from carbone
  4. prefixed as hydrocarbon — “hydro- + carbon”

Definitions

  1. A compound consisting only of carbon and hydrogen atoms.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hydrocarbon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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