James Cook (1728-1779) Famous For: Discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. An English captain who circumnavigated around the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. He made contact with the inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands, Australia, New Zealand, and around the Indian Ocean back to the Atlantic. He died while serving the Crown in Hawaii.
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection [DEP] relies on laboratory tests called EPH [Extractable Petroleum Hydrocarbons] and VPH [Volatile Petroleum Hydrocarbons] to test for the presence of gasoline or fuel oil in drinking water.
Definition of hydrocarbons: Hydrocarbons are chemical compounds that are formed from only hydrogen atoms and carbon atoms. Categories of hydrocarbons include: 1  Alkanes - *saturated hydrocarbons, only single bonds. 2  Alkenes - *unsaturated hydrocarbons, include a double bond.3  Alkynes - *unsaturated hydrocarbons, include a triple bond (more advanced topic, included in A-Level Chemistry).ategories of hydrocarbons include: 1  Alkanes - *saturated hydrocarbons, only single bonds. 2  Alkenes - *unsaturated hydrocarbons, include a double bond.