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1
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What is a hydrocarbon ?

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A compound made up of hydrogen and carbon

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2
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What is crude oil ?

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A mixture of different length hydrocarbons

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3
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Describe an alkanes ?

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Hydrocarbon with single bonds only

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4
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What alkane has 1 carbon and 4 hydrogen ?

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Methane

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5
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Which alkane has 3 carbons and 8 hydrogen ?

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Propane

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6
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What are the 4 alkanes you need to know how to recognise ?

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Methan
Ethane
Propane
Butane

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7
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How many bonds can one atom of carbon form ?

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4 strong bonds

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8
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Where is crude oil found ?

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Found in rocks its finite

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9
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What is crude oil ?

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A biomass

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10
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What’s the name of series for alkanes ?

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Homologous series

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11
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How is crude oil naturally formed ?

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Dead animals and plankton from millions of years ago

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12
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What is fractional distillation ?

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The extraction of the 4 chemicals out of crude oil using heating

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13
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Why can you do fractional distillation to crude oil ?

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Because all 4 chemicals each have different boiling points so they can be separated by heating

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14
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What’s the thing called that separates each one of the gases from crude oil ?

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Fractionating Column

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15
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2 main steps of fractional distillation ?

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  1. Heating up oil into a gas
  2. Putting into into the fractionating column for separation of the gases for different uses
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16
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What are the 5 things produced from the fractionating distillation ?

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Petrol, kerosene, diesel, heavy fuel oil, bitumen

17
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Which fuels are the most flammable created ?

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Diesel
Kerosene
Petrol

This is why they are the most frequently used

18
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What are the longer chained carbons attributes ?

A

Viscous
Not very flammable

19
Q

What are the two types of cracking ?

A

Steam cracking

Catalytic cracking

20
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What do you need for catalytic cracking ?

A

Hot powdered aluminium oxide
Vaporised hydrocarbon

21
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What do you need for steam cracking ?

A

Steam
Heat
Vaporised hydrocarbon

22
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What does cracking do ?

A

Spits long hydrocarbon chains into shorter ones

23
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What does an alkene have over an alkane ?

A

A double not single bond

24
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What’s the test for alkenes ?

A

Bromine water and solution of alkenes which turns colourless

25
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How do you measure RF rate ?

A

Distance of water/distance of solvent

26
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Describe a hydrocarbon in simple form ?

A

Only hydrogen and carbon

27
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Describe fossil fuel formation ?

A
  1. Animals die and plants
  2. Buried in ground
  3. High temperature causes pressure
  4. Millions of years to form
28
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What does cracking do ?

A

Breaks long chains into shorter ones that are more useful as they are better fuels

29
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What does cracking need ?

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Cracking needs high temperature and a catalyst

30
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How can you tell the difference between alkanes and alkenes bonds ?

A

Alkenes have double e’s just like they have double bonds

31
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What’s the general formula for an alkane ?

A

CnH2n+2

32
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What’s the general formulae for an alkenes ?

A

CnH2n

33
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What’s the test for alkenes ?

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Bromine water and it will turn colourless

34
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What’s the test for an alkanes ?

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Bromine water and it will turn orange

35
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What’s the conditions used for steam cracking ?

A

Water vapour

High temp

36
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Why is the process of cracking important in industry ?

A

Helps create useful petrols and other fuels for important things

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