Chapter 21, Problem 41A

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

Two natural sources of hydrocarbons needs to be named.

Concept introduction:

The hydrocarbon compounds contain compound that are made up of only hydrogen and carbon atoms. The hydrocarbon compounds that contains single bond(s) between carbon atom(s) are said to be saturated hydrocarbon whereashydrocarbon compounds that contains multiple bond(s) between carbon atom(s) are said to be unsaturated hydrocarbon.

Explanation of Solution

Hydrocarbons make good wide variety of fuels and consumer goods as their covalent bonds store large amount of energy, on burning the molecule a large amount of energy is released.

Two natural sources of hydrocarbons are coal and petroleum.

Coal is used as a fuel for electric power plants.

Petroleum is used to provide power to most cars and also act as a raw material in many pharmaceuticals, plastics and cosmetics.