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Paper 2: Cracking Flashcards

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What is cracking?

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A process carried out on fractions in oil refineries after fraction distillation

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What does cracking involve?

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Breaking down large alkanes into smaller, more useful alkanes or alkenes

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What is an example of an alkane?

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Paraffin

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What is the process of cracking liquid paraffin?

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Liquid paraffin is put on mineral wool
Broken porous pot in put in a tube with mineral
Lid is put on tube
A delivery tube is put in an upside down tube in water with ethane gas

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GCSE Chemistry (combined Higher) (38 decks)

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