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hydrocarbon: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
The concept of “special stability” in aromatic hydrocarbons is covered in Peter J. Garratt, Aromaticity, 2nd ed. (1986). Industrial organic chemicals and the processes by which they are prepared are described in H. Harry Szmant, Organic Building Blocks of the Chemical Industry (1989). Stanley R. Sandler and Wolf Karo, Polymer Syntheses, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (1992), presents information on techniques of hydrocarbon polymerization.
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: Chemistry LibreTexts - Hydrocarbons. | Oct 16, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Nobel Prize - Hydrocarbons for the 21st century. | Apr 10, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Carbon and hydrocarbons. | Nov 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: IOPscience - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science - Self-development and Renewal of Hydrocarbon Resources and Reserves in the Caspian and Black Sea Region (PDF). | Sep 27, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Introductory Chemistry - Hydrocarbons. | Aug 15, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Jan 16, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Jan 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: PennState College of Earth and Mineral Sciences - John A. Dutton Institute for Teaching and Learning Excellence - Introduction to Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering - Hydrocarbon Types. | Nov 21, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Open Library Publishing Platform - Introductory Chemistry- 1st Canadian Edition - Hydrocarbons. | Sep 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Open Oregon Educational Resources - Introductory Organic Chemistry - Properties of the Hydrocarbons. | Jul 16, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: BCcampus Open Publishing - Introductory Chemistry � 1st Canadian Edition - Hydrocarbons. | Feb 16, 2024 | ||
| Links added. | Dec 07, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Hydrocarbon Analysis (PDF). | Dec 04, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Florida State University - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry - Hydrocarbons. | Oct 09, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The hydrocarbon pollution crisis: Harnessing the earth hydrocarbon‐degrading microbiome. | Jul 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Openstax - Chemistry 2e - Hydrocarbons. | Apr 01, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chemistry LibreTexts - Hydrocarbons. | Jan 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Investopedia - What Is Hydrocarbon? | Sep 06, 2022 | ||
| Added an illustration showing intermediate and end products formed from raw benzene. | Nov 04, 2020 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jul 06, 2017 | ||
| Added a graphic showing structures of representative hydrocarbons. | Dec 02, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Emedicine - Hydrocarbon Toxicity. | Sep 26, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Virtual Chembook of Elmhurst College - Hydrocarbons. | Sep 23, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Emedicine - Hydrocarbon. | Sep 23, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Purdue University - Division of Chemical Education - Hydrocarbons. | Sep 23, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Hyperphysics - Hydrocarbons. | Sep 21, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Hydrocarbon. | Sep 21, 2011 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Aug 15, 2008 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Aug 15, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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