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1 Crude oil, Polymers and Ethanol
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Do you use alkanes or alkenes for cracking?
Alkanes -
What bonds does cracking break?
C-C covalent bonds -
Briefly describe the process of cracking
The hydrocarbons are heated in order to turn them into gases, they are then passed over a hot catalyst, the bonds then break -
What type of reaction is cracking?
Thermal decomposition -
What are the shorter alkanes used for?
Fuels -
What are the shorter alkenes used for?
To make plastics -
Which are saturated, alkanes or alkenes?
Alkanes -
Through which process are monomers joined together?
Polymerisation -
Why are polymers made from alkenes?
Because they have double bonds that can be broken and used to join the molecules together -
How are polymers named?
By putting 'poly' before the name of the monomer in brackets, e.g poly(ethene)
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