21.1Hydrocarbons
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- Applies9.5Counting Principles
The alkane table lists structural-isomer counts exploding from 1 (methane) to 75 (decane) to 60,523 (octadecane) as chain length grows — a visible, memorable instance of combinatorial growth that motivates why counting principles, rather than drawing every isomer by hand, becomes necessary past about ten carbons.