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Carbon number
Number of carbon atoms in a chemical compound From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In organic chemistry, the carbon number of a compound is the number of carbon atoms in each molecule.[1] The properties of hydrocarbons can be correlated with the carbon number, although the carbon number alone does not give an indication of the saturation of the organic compound. When describing a particular molecule, the "carbon number" is also the ordinal position of a particular carbon atom in a chain.
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