Products Of Crude Oil Flashcards
Pros for recycling plastics
- plastic can be made into something else
* saves crude oil resources
Cons for recycling plastics
- costs money to melt plastics
- costs money to separate plastics in land fills
- not all plastics can be remoulded
3 ways to dispose of polymer (plastic) bags
- reuse
- burn to make energy (incineration)
- recycling
Pros of reusing plastic bags
- saves resources
* no more crude oil needs to be used
Cons of reusing plastic bags
- plastic bags break
- still end up in land fills
- bags don’t decompose
Name of the first five alkanes
Methane Ethane Propane Butane Pentane
Name the first five alcohols
Methanol Ethanol Propanol Butanol Pentanol
2 processes of making ethanol
- fermentation of ethanol
* hydration of ethene
What does immiscible mean
Two things that dont mix
Pros of incineration of plastic bags
- can be used to make energy
- easy to do
- doesnt end up in landfills
Cons of incineration of plastic bags
- releases CO2 into the atmosphere
* causes global warming
Name the first five alkenes
Methene Ethene Propene Butene Pentene
What are alkanes made up of
Chains of carbon atoms surrounded by hydrogen atoms
When is a hydrocarbon more flammable
The shorter the hydrocarbon the more flammable it is
What does carbon dioxide cause
Global warming
What does carbon monoxide cause
Poisoning
What does particulates cause
global dimming
Smog
What does sulphur dioxide cause
Acid rain
What is the process of the miller-urey experiment
1) early atmosphere gases are put in a flask
2) electrical shock stimulates lightning
3) water is heated, evaporates into flask
4) water condenses
5) cool water is trapped with the tap and organic compounds
6) amino acids were collected
