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S Mar 29, 2023 at 17:11 history suggested Rodrigo de Azevedo CC BY-SA 4.0
Now using the DOI link
Mar 29, 2023 at 13:27 comment added CHEMUMAN @Poutnik The link provided by you really helped. Thanks.
Mar 29, 2023 at 12:03 comment added Poutnik @CHEMUMAN Yes, I do. There is nowhere said methane is a compound of carbon-12 and hydrogen-1. Molecules differing just by isotopic composition are called Isotopologues // Hydrogen is exception just formally, having dedicated symbols for its isotopes, as they have relatively biggest differences due the biggest relative mass differences. So H, D, T as hydrogen-1, hydrogen-2 and hydrogen-3 formally look like 3 different elements, while being just one.
Mar 29, 2023 at 11:17 comment added CHEMUMAN @Poutnik What do you mean is that $\ce{CH_4}$ is actually a mixture of various compounds of isotopes of carbon & isotopes of hydrogen(e.g.: $\ce{^14_6C _1^3H_4}$ is also methane), isn't it?
Mar 29, 2023 at 10:57 comment added Poutnik @CHEMUMAN Is $\ce{H2^{18}O}$ water? Yes, it is. $\ce{CD4}$ is nothing else but $\ce{C^{2}H4}$. Do not let convention $\ce{^{2}H}$ being written as $\ce{D}$ confuse you. H in CH4 means hydrogen, not protium.
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Mar 29, 2023 at 5:07 comment added CHEMUMAN Can we call them D/T-substituted alkane?
Mar 29, 2023 at 4:52 history answered Nilay Ghosh CC BY-SA 4.0