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C9 Crude Oil Flashcards

1
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What is crude oil?

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A finite resource found in rocks.

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2
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What is the word equation for combustion?

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Fuel + Oxygen —> Carbon dioxide + Water

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3
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What is soot?

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Small particles of carbon which coal fire gives off.

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What is complete combustion?

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Combustion that takes place with a plentiful supply of oxygen.

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5
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What is incomplete combustion?

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Combustion that occurs in a limited supply of oxygen.

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6
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What type of flame is produced in an open bunsen burner?

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Roaring flame - used to heat things up quickly

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What type of flame is produced in a half open bunsen burner?

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Blue flame - used to heat things up gently

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What type of flame is produced in a closed bunsen burner?

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Yellow Safety Flame - visible flame for when the bunsen is not being used

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9
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What is a double bond?

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A covalent bond made by sharing two pairs of electrons.

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10
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What is an alkane?

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A saturated hydrocarbon

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What is the general formula for an alkane?

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CnH2n+2n

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12
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What are four examples of alkanes?

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CH4 - Methane
C2H8 - Ethane
C3H8 - Propane
C4H10 - Butane

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13
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What is an alkene?

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An unsaturated hydrocarbon which contains a carbon-carbon double bond.

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14
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What is the general formula for an alkene?

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CnH2n

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15
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What are 4 examples of an alkene?

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Ethene - C2H4
Propene - C3H6
Butene - C4H8
Pentene - C5H10

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16
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What is cracking?

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The reaction used in the oil industry to break down large hydrocarbons into smaller, more useful ones

17
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What is distillation?

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Separation of a liquid from a mixture by evaporation followed by condensation

18
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What is fractional distilation?

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A way to separate liquids from a mixture of liquids by boiling off the substances at different temperatures, then condensing and collecting the liquids

19
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What is thermal decompostion?

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The breaking down of a compound by heating it.

20
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What is viscosity?

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The resistance of a liquid to flowing or pouring (can sometimes be seen as a liquid’s thickness)

21
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Why is fractional distillation used to seperate crude oil into fractions?

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It’s made of different hydrocarbon molecules which can have different uses (such as fuel)

22
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How does fractional distillation use the different boiling temperatures of crude oil to seperate it?

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1) Heated crude oil enters a tall fractionating column (which is hot at the bottom and gets cooler towards the top)

2) Vapours from the oil rise through the column

3 ) Vapours condense when they become cool enough

4) Liquids are led out of the column at different heights

23
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What is the general equation for complete combustion?

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C(x)H(y) + (x + y/4)O2 —> (x)CO2 + (y/2)H2O

24
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How to test for carbon dioxide?

A

Colourless limewater turns cloudy

25
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How to test for water?

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Blue cobbalt chloride paper turns pink

26
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How to test for unsaturation (alkenes)?

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Orange bromine water decolourises

27
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How is crude oil formed?

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Over millions of years from the remains of ancient biomass.

28
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How does boiling point depend on the chain length?

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Longer the chain, higher the boiling point

29
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How does viscosity depend on chain length?

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Longer the chain, Higher the viscosity

30
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How does flammability depend on chain length?

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longer the chain, lower the flammability

31
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Name five useful fuels produced from fractional distillation of crude oil.

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petrol, diesel oil, kerosene, heavy fuel oil, and bitumen

32
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Describe the reactivity of alkenes compared to alkanes.

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alkenes are much more reactive

33
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As chain length increases ….

A

there are more weak intermolecular forces, meaning it takes more energy to break them.

34
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What is a functional group?

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A group of atoms which gives characteristic chemical reactions of a compound.

35
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Wha

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