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Hydrocarbons - Alkanes - Alkenes - Quiz

1. What is a hydrocarbon?
An element from oil
A compound made from hydrogen and carbon only
A compound made from hydrogen and carbon dioxide
A mixture of two or more elements

Answer:

2. An alkane has
Single bonds and double bonds
At least one double bond
Single bonds only
Double bonds only

Answer:Single bonds only

3. An alkene has
Doubly bonded hydrogen atoms
At least one double bond
Double bonds only
Single bonds only

Answer:At least one double bond

4. Alkanes are
Saturated
Quite wet
Unsaturated
Very dry

Answer:Saturated

5. The alkene with three carbon atoms is called
Butane
Butene
Propane
Propene

Answer:Propene

6. Alkenes can be used
To make polymers
To make fire extinguishers
To make airships float
As fertilizer

Answer:To make polymers

7. Alkenes can be distinguished from alkanes using
Water
Lime water
Bromine water
Soap
Answer:

What are the uses of Alkanes?
What are the uses of Alkenes?
How can alkenes be distinguished from alkanes using bromine water?

Products from Oil

Alkanes and Alkenes - Uses.

Alkanes are unreactive and are mainly used as fuels.

Alkenes are much more reactive than alkanes
because alkenes are unsaturated (they have a reactive double bond).

Alkenes are the starting material for many different chemicals.
They are extremely useful to the chemical industry.
Ethene and propene are the starting materials for polymers,
giving poly(ethene) and poly(propene) - see polymers.

An alkene may be distinguished from an alkane
by shaking the hydrocarbon with bromine water.
Bromine water is brown or orange, and will lose its colour
when it reacts with a double bond in an alkene.
Bromine water will stay brown with an alkane
because an alkane has no double bonds.

Bromine adds across the double bond of an alkene
to form a colourless dibromo alkane.
This is an example of an addition reaction.
An addition reaction occurs when two or more reactants
join together to form a single product.
Other examples of addition reactions are the hydrogenation of vegetable oils,
addition polymerisation and the hydration of ethene.