Products From Oil Flashcards
What do cracking products produce?
Alkanes and alkanes
How can hydrocarbon molecules be broken down? Via cracking
By heating then with steam to very high temperatures or by passing their vapours over a hot catalyst
What are alkenes
Unsaturated hydrocarbons
Alkenes turn what to water
Bromine to water from orange to colourless
How can large hydrocarbon molecules be broken down into smaller ones?
By a process called cracking
During cracking thermal decomposition, reactions a mixture of smaller what?
Mixture of smaller molecules
These alkanes with smaller molecules are good for what?
Useful fuels
Why are alkenes unsaturated hydrocarbons?
Because they contain feet hydrogen atoms then alkanes with the same number of carbon atoms
Give an example of cracking
Decane - catalyst 800 a pentane + propene + ethene
What do alkenes have that make then more reactive then alkanes?
Alkenes have a double bond between two cabin atoms
Why can different mixtures of alkanes and alkenes be produced by cracking?
Because different hydrocarbons can be used and the conditions for the reaction can be changed
What are plastics made of?
Very large molecules called polymers
What are polymers made of?
Very small molecules joined together called monomers
What’s the reaction to make a polymer called?
Polymerisation
Howls are polymers made?
From many small molecules or monomers that react or join together or polymerise to make a very large or long molecule
It’s of ethene molecules can join together to make what?
To form poly(ethen)
What happens the polymerisation reaction on ethene
The double bond in each ethene molecule because a bungle bond and thousands of ethene molecules join together in long chains