(There is no home-treatment antidote for gasoline poisoning call a poison control center.) People who swallow gasoline or other liquid alkane mixtures should not be made to vomit, as this would increase the chance of getting alkanes into the lungs. The lungs become unable to expel fluids, just as in pneumonia caused by bacteria or viruses. In the lungs, however, they cause “chemical” pneumonia by dissolving fatlike molecules from cell membranes in the tiny air sacs (alveoli). Swallowed, liquid alkanes do little harm while in the stomach. Inhaling (“sniffing”) these hydrocarbons in gasoline or aerosol propellants for their intoxicating effect is a major health problem that can lead to liver, kidney, or brain damage or to immediate death by asphyxiation by excluding oxygen. Alkanes of low molar mass-those with from 1 to approximately 10 or so carbon atoms-are gases or light liquids that act as anesthetics. These effects depend on the size of the hydrocarbon molecules and where on or in the body they are applied. Hydrocarbons are the simplest organic compounds, but they have interesting physiological effects. Chapter 11 - Metabolic Pathways and Energy Production.Chapter 10 - Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis.Chapter 2 - Alcohols, Phenols, Thiols, Ethers.1.19 End-of-Unit Material: Unsaturated and Aromatic Hydrocarbons.1.18 Structure and Nomenclature of Aromatic Compounds.1.12 Cis-Trans isomers (Geometric Isomers).

Introduction: Unsaturated and Aromatic Hydrocarbons.1.10 End-of-Unit Material: Alkanes and Halogenated Hydrocarbons.1.4 Condensed Structural and Line-Angle Formulas.Introduction: Alkanes and Halogenated Hydrocarbons.Chapter 1 - Organic Chemistry Review / Hydrocarbons.

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