Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of or having the nature of hydrocarbon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of the nature, or containing, hydrocarbons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective chemistry, archaic Of the nature of, or containing,
hydrocarbons .
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Examples
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Such a case occurs when large beds of vegetable substances are buried under layers of sediment which subsequently become stone, and thus shut the hydrocarbonaceous compounds beneath them from all access to oxygen.
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