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In chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting only of carbon and hydrogen. They all consist of carbon backbone and atoms of hydrogen attached to that backbone, also see aliphatic hydrocarbons.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Category:Hydrocarbons” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.