Sentences with phrase «chain hydrocarbon molecules»

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Under pressure and heat, the dead creatures» long chains of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon - bearing molecules, known as polymers, decompose into short - chain petroleum hydrocarbons.

First, the researchers tagged each molecule with a pair of long hydrocarbon chains.

Here's how we got the weight of CO2: Gasoline is made up of short - chain hydrocarbons, molecules that are around 87 percent carbon by weight.

The series of molecules vary in chain length and are composed of a hydrocarbon plus a hydroxyl group; CH (3)- (CH (2)-RRB- n - OH (e.g., methanol, ethanol, and tertiary butyl alcohol).