Help with this EQUATION!!! please...

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Help with this EQUATION!!! please...

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Hi - I am a chemistry novice trying to decipher a formula.

Can someone tell me what this is ???

H2-C-H

is that a molecule of anything ?

and also?

H-C-OH

Thank you!
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None of these are real molecules. Carbon atom must have four bonds
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