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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.
Combustion Enthalpy of Combustion The reactions that produce carbon and dioxide and water from hydrocarbons in the atmosphere release the same amount of energy as the combustion of those hydrocarbons. We can measure the enthalpy of combustion by burning the hydrocarbons in a calorimeter.