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What are the names of hydrocarbons?

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Anything ending with "...ane" (methane), "...ene" (benzene), "...yne" (ethyne), "...ol" (propanol), "...oic acid" (ethanoic acid). There are more, as there are tens of thousands of hydrocarbons.

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