Alkanes Flashcards
What are alkanes?
They have single bond’s and they have more carbon atoms than hydrogen atoms. This makes them have a high melting and boiling point.
What is organic chemistry?
The study of compound’s made up of carbon and hydrogen bonded together.
What are the state of the fist 10 Alkanes?
The first 4 alkane are gases, the next four are liquid’s and the rest are solid’s.
What is special about alkanes?
They do not react with acid’s or bases, but they burn easily in oxygen, releasing large amount’s of energy.
Why do we use them in car’s and automobiles today?
Because they store a large amount of energy in a very small volume.
Where are alkanes found?
The main source of alkanes is in fossil fuels, that is crude oil and natural gases.
What are fossil fuel’s?
Fossil fuels are a mixture of different types of alkanes. the types that are found varies from well to well.
How are fossil fuels made?
They are compressed animals and plant remains that have broken down without oxygen to fully decay.
How to you Separate different types of alkanes?
you put the crude oil through a fraction distillation tower, were they are heated to different temperatures and drawn off at different hight’s depending on the boiling point’s of the various alkanes.
How are names of alkanes formed?
The prefix tell’s you the number of carbon atom’s in each molecule, and the suffix tell’s you the type of bond’s holding it together.if it end’s with ANE it has single bond’s and if it end’s with ENE, then it has double bond’s.
