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Methane is a Hydrocarbon. Show the structural formula for Methane and Explain why it is a hydrocarbon?

show CH₄with C in the centre and 4 H atoms with bonds to it at 90^oto each other.
A hydrocarbon is a molecule that contains only hydrogen and carbon atoms.

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