As the name implies hydrocarbons consist of only hydrogen and carbon atoms. There are thousands of possible hydrocarbon molecules. However, the simplest type are called alkanes. Alkanes have the formula CnH2n+2, where n = 1,2,3 etc.. For example for n=1 we have CH4, for n=2 we have C2H6 etc.. Naming these hydrocarbons is simple:
In 2010, when Matilda the chicken, of Ipswich, England, laid an egg 3 1/2 inches high and 8.3 inches around, a Guinness World Records spokesman told the U.K. news website Metro: The largest hen egg was a five-yolked egg measuring [12.2 inches] around the long axis, [9 inches] around the short and weighing nearly [12 ounces].
Mini-beast World Records. Largest Eggs: The 15cm (6â) Malaysian stick insect Heteropteryx dilitata lays eggs that measure 1.3cm (0.5â), making them larger than a peanut! Some insects, mainly mantids and cockroaches, lay egg-cases that are much larger than this, but these contain as many as 200 individual eggs.argest Invertebrate The Atlantic giant squid Architeuthis dux is the largest known invertebrate. The largest ever discovered was a 2.2 ton specimen that washed ashore in Thimble Tickle Bay, Newfoundland, Canada on November 2, 1878.