C1d-making Polymers

Question 1

What is saturated compound?

Answer 1

A compound that only contains single covalent bonds between carbon atoms

Question 2

What is an unsaturated compound?

Answer 2

A compound that contains at least one double covalent bond between carbon atoms

Question 3

What are alkanes?

Answer 3

Saturated hydrocarbons

Question 4

What are alkenes?

Answer 4

Unsaturated hydrocarbons

Question 5

What do double bonds involve?

Answer 5

Two shared pairs of electrons

Question 6

What is the test for an alkene?

Answer 6

Alkenes turn bromine water from orange to colourless
Addition reaction
Bromine adds to double bond
Formation of a colourless dibromo compound

Question 7

How do you form the name of a polymer?

Answer 7

Poly+ monomer

Question 8

What is a hydrocarbon?

Answer 8

A compound formed between carbon atoms and hydrogen only

Question 9

What are polymers?

Answer 9

Long chain molecules made from many small molecules. Called monomers

Question 10

What does addition polymerisation need?

Answer 10

High pressure

Catalyst

Question 11

What is addition polymerisation?

Answer 11

When lots of unsaturated monomer molecules(alkenes) open up their double bonds and join together to form polymer chains