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WHAT ARE HYDROCARBONS?

1.What are hydrocarbons? Hydrocarbons are products that people get from crude oil. Created over millions of years, they are formed from swamps and forests, and are used in gases, heating oil, diesel oil, lubrication oils, and kerosene. The name hydrocarbon is really a nickname for long combinations of hydrogen and and carbon atoms in crude oil.

2.Hydrocarbons are basically a natural product of hydrogen and carbon made from crude oil. There are thousands of chemicals in crude oil hydrocarbons are some of them. Bacteria in the environment have some ability to break down small amounts of these hydrocarbons. However, when the burden of hydrocarbons increases, the ability of the bacteria to manage them is overwhelmed and the natural ecosystem is negatively affected.

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