Alkanes-as fuels

Question 1

Complete Combustion

Answer 1

when alkanes(and other hydrocarbons) react with oxygen(plenty—>carbon dioxide + water

Question 2

Incomplete Combustion

Answer 2

when alkanes (and other hydrocarbons) react with oxygen(not enough)—>carbon particulate(soot)+ carbon monoxide and/or carbon dioxide + water

Question 3

Carbon Monoxide

Answer 3

• poisonous
  -bind to the same sites on haemoglobin (in red blood cells) that oxygen binds to: oxygen can not be carried around the body
  -Removed from exhaust gases by catalytic converters on cars

Question 4

Nitrous oxides