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Hydrocarbons in the electrical energy

Hydrocarbons have a very important task in the electrical energy consumption, they take up a major part in the process of making electrical energy, fossil fuels account for approximately 85% of the entire world energy consumption.

The carbon is an element present in our daily life. Here are some of their characteristics:

•Is one of the most abundant elemnets of Earth

•Is the chemicla base for all living things

•Bonds with oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur

•Because of its bonding ability, carbon can form single, double, or triple covalent bonds with other atoms.

•As multyple physical forms

•A stable carbon atom possesses six protons, six neutrons and six electrons, resulting in an atomic mass of 12.011 and sits in the sixth position on the Periodic Table of Elements.

•Solid-state molecules consisting of only bonded carbon atoms form tetrahedral or hexagonal shapes, depending on the physical status of the substance.

•Carbon burns in oxygen to create carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. Carbon can also form carbides when heated with oxides.

•Carbon chains

Properties:

1. The only requirement is a carbon atom.

2. Is a "significant" number of carbon atoms, which is still not an exact and measurable number.

3. Must contain carbon-to-carbon bonds or carbon-to-hydrogen bonds in order to qualify.

4. The theory of vitalism applies to the properties of organic compounds.

5. The hydrocarbons, contain the alkanes and the alkenes, and have a high propensity for burning

6. Organic compounds contain what is called functional groups, a structural unit made up of groups of atoms in a molecule that are bonded to the rest of the molecule by a covalent bond.

7. Size is another property of organic compounds that offers great variation from one compound to the next.

8. Organic compounds contain long chains of carbon atoms which can loop around each other.

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