Cracking

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  • Created on: 04-02-19 18:08
What happens in cracking?
In cracking, a large alkane is broken down, to produce smaller, more useful molecules
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What can shorter chain alkanes are used for?
Cars
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What else is made from cracking?
An Alkene
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What are two types of cracking?
Catalytic cracking and steam cracking
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How do we do catalytic cracking?
We use heat and a catalyst. The catalyst speeds up the reaction
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How do we do steam cracking?
We use heat and steam
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What do Alkenes have?
Alkenes have at least one double carbon to carbon covalent bond.
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Are Alkenes more reactive or less reactive?
More reactive
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How do we test for Alkene?
If we shake our Alkene with bromine water, then the bromine water became a colourless solution
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