Cracking

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How can you tell if the hydrocarbon is an alkane?
Alkanes only have single bonds between the carbon atomss
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What is Cracking?
Cracking is where a large alkane is broken down (cracked) to produce smaller, more useful molecules.
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what is catalytic cracking?
In catalytic cracking we use heat and a catalyst, the catalyst speeds up the reaction.
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What is the other type of cracking?
Steam cracking, where we use heat and steam
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How can you tell if a hydrocarbon is an alkene
An alkene has at least one double carbon to carbon bond
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What is Cracking?

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