Unit 2 Flashcards
What’s a fuel?
A chemical which is burned to produce energy
Do esters float on water?
Yes
What’s another word for burning?
Combustion
What does a substance react with when it burns?
Oxygen
What’s the chemical compounds which are mainly found in oil and natural gas?
Hydrocarbons
What does a hydrocarbon contain?
Hydrogen and carbon only
What do hydrocarbons produce when burned in a plentiful supply of oxygen?
Carbon dioxide and water
What’s the test for carbon dioxide?
Turns lime water milky
Are carbon and carbon monoxide poisonous gases?
Yeap
When are carbon and carbon monoxide produced?
When hydrocarbons burn in a supply of oxygen which is insufficient for complete combustion
How are nitrogen oxides (poisonous gas) formed?
Nitrogen and oxygen from the air react inside a petrol engine
What is released into the atmosphere from the burning of fuels?
Sulphur dioxide the poisonous gas
Whats produced by incomplete combustion of diesel (harmful) ?
Soot particles
How can air pollution from the combustion of hydrocarbons be reduced?
By the use of catalytic converters which speed up the conversion of pollutant gases to harmless gases
What is crude oil a mixture of?
Chemical compounds, mainly hydrocarbons
What is fractional distillation?
The process used to separate crude oil into fractions according to the boiling points of the fractions
What’s a fraction?
A group of hydrocarbons with boiling points in a given range
Which properties are related to molecular sizes of the molecules within the fractions and the use of fractions? (4)
Ease of evaporation
Viscosity
Flammability
Boiling point range
What’s the homologous series?
A set of compounds with the same general formula and similar chemical properties
What are subsets of the hydrocarbons? (3)
An alkane
An alkene
A cycloalkane
What are isomers?
Compounds with the same molecular formula but different structural formula
What can an alkanol be identified from?
The hydroxyl group and the “-ol” ending
What can an alkanoic acid be identified from?
The carboxyl group and the “-oic” name ending
What can an ester be identified from?
Estée group and “-oate” ending