Talk:Hydrocarbons

Rationale for all the revisions and expansions I made today (March 22, 2009)

In the course of the 19 CZ articles I have written about petroleum refining processes and natural gas processes as well as many of the 54 CZ articles I have written on various chemical engineering subjects, I probably used the word hydrocarbons a few hundred times or more. In view of that, I thought that this article deserved to be expanded and revised so as to provide a more informative article for linking to.

I realize that a really complete discussion of hydrocarbons would probably require a textook of 400-500 pages. I am neither competent to do that, nor do I have the time to do more than I did today. I think the article now covers the subject of hydrocarbons adequately enough so that one can link to it from other articles in most cases.

If anyone feels that I have erred in some of my revisions and expansions, feel free to correct any such errors. And if anyone feels that more expansion is still required, again feel free to expand the article further. I only suggest that the article not be turned into a chemistry textbook and that the usage of highly advanced chemistry details be avoided.

Perhaps, some CZ authors will someday create separate, much more detailed articles for the subjects discussed in each of the sections of this current article and I believe such separate articles are sorely needed. Milton Beychok 02:53, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Hydrocarbon peak in NMR spectroscopy

Did not see how to factor this in here (perhaps as a footnbote?) but in NMR spectra, peaks that involve only C and H are often referred to as "hydrocarbon peaks", irrespective of whether the molecule as a whole contains other types of atoms. --Daniel Mietchen 09:53, 23 March 2009 (UTC)