Even his brownish hair looked as if it were extruded from some hydrocarbon base.

It consists essentially of ethereal salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases.

Most motor oils are made from a heavier, thicker petroleum hydrocarbon base stock derived from crude oil, with additives to improve certain properties.

The European community, including the Russian program, has concentrated on the use of two-component drilling fluid consisting of low-density hydrocarbon base (brown kerosene was used at Vostok) boosted to the density of ice by addition of halogenated-hydrocarbon densifier.