Alkenes and Ethanol

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What bond do Alkenes have?
A C=C doble bond
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Are Alkenes saturated or unsaturated?
Unsaturated
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Why are Alkenes unsaturated?
Because they can make more bonds
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What is the first alkene?
Ethene
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What is the second alkene?
Propene
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What is the general formula of an alkene?
CnH2n
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What is the formula of ethene?
C2H4
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What is the formula of propene?
C3H6
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How can you test for an alkene?
By adding the substance to bromine water.
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What will happen to the bromine water?
An alkene will decolourise the bromine water (turning it from orange to colourless)
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Why does an alkene decolourise the bromine water?
Because the double bond has opened up and formed bonds with the bromine
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What can ethene be reacted with to produce ethanol?
Steam
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Why is the process of ethene being reacted with steam to produce ethanol cheap?
Because ethene's fairly cheap and not much of it is wasteful
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What is the trouble with ethene?
Ethene is produced from crude oil, which is a non-renewable resource that could start running out fairly soon
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Using ethene to make ethanol will become very.......?
Expensive
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What else can ethanol be produced from?
Renewable resources
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What is the alcohol in beer and wine made from?
Fermentation
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What is the raw material from fermentation?
Sugar
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Sugar is converted into ethanol using.....?
Yeast
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What is the word equation for sugar being converted into ethanol?
sugar ----> carbon dioxide + ethanol
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What is an advantage of using sugar?
It is a renewable resource
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Where and how is sugar grown?
As a major crop in several parts of the world, including many poorer countries
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What is good about the way the ethanol produced by fermentation?
The ethanol produced this way can be used as quite a cheap fuel in countries which don't have oil reserves for making petrol
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What are the disadvantages of fermentation?
The ethanol produced from this process isn't very concentrated and it needs to be purified
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If you want to increase the strength of ethanol what do you have to do?
Distil it
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Are Alkanes saturated or unsaturated?
Saturated
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Do alkanes decolourise bromine water?
No
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