Chemistry: Products from oil

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  • Created on: 04-04-14 17:29
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  • Products from oil
    • Making polymers from alkenes
      • Polymers are plastics
      • smaller polymers are called monomers
      • Reaction is called polymerisation
    • New and useful polymers
      • Dentil fillings: replace fillings that contain mercury
      • plasters: light sensitive polymers
      • Hydrogels: trap water
      • Shape memory polymers: original shape when temperature or other conditions change
    • Plastic waste
      • most polymers are not biodegradable
        • Cause unpleasent sights
      • biogradable plastics are decomposed by the action of microorganism in soil
      • Making plastic with sarch granules in their structure helps the microorganism break down a plastic
      • We can make biodegradable plastics from plant material such as cornsarch
    • Ethanol
      • Fermenting sugar using enzymes in yeast
      • Made by hydration of ethene with steam in a catalyst
  • Cracking Hydrocarbons
    • Products from oil
      • Making polymers from alkenes
        • Polymers are plastics
        • smaller polymers are called monomers
        • Reaction is called polymerisation
      • New and useful polymers
        • Dentil fillings: replace fillings that contain mercury
        • plasters: light sensitive polymers
        • Hydrogels: trap water
        • Shape memory polymers: original shape when temperature or other conditions change
      • Plastic waste
        • most polymers are not biodegradable
          • Cause unpleasent sights
        • biogradable plastics are decomposed by the action of microorganism in soil
        • Making plastic with sarch granules in their structure helps the microorganism break down a plastic
        • We can make biodegradable plastics from plant material such as cornsarch
      • Ethanol
        • Fermenting sugar using enzymes in yeast
        • Made by hydration of ethene with steam in a catalyst
    • Cracking
      • 1) heating the mixture of hydrocarbon vapours and steam to a very high temp.
      • 2) passing hyrdrocarbons vapours ovver a hot catalyst
    • Some smaller molecules are alkanes, which are saturated hydrocarbons
      • Formula : C  H
    • Large hydrocarbons can be broke down in a process called cracking
    • Alkenes have a double bond
      • turn colourless when reacted with bromine water

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