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Complete combustion (given sufficient oxygen) of any hydrocarbon produces carbon dioxide and water. Equations. It is quite important that you can write properly balanced equations for these reactions, because they often come up as a part of thermochemistry calculations.
The combustion of a hydrocarbon produces carbon dioxide and water. Thus the combustion of octane is given by -. C8H18 + O2 ---> CO2 + H2O. To balance this equation, we need to balance the atoms on the left and right hand side.