1. What is an addition reaction?

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2. What is the problem with burning addition polymers to dispose of them?

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3. What is used to test if something is an alkane or and alkene?

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4. Explain why cracking is an important process in the oil industry

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5. Recall the products of the complete combustion of alkanes

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6. State the general formula for alkenes

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7. Describe, in terms of structure and bonding, what happens when ethene molecules are converted into poly(ethene)

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8. What does the following diagram represent?

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9. This diagram shows one repeat unit of a polymer. Name the monomer used to make this polymer.

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10. Of which homologous series is >C=C< (a carbon-to-carbon double bond) the functional group?

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11. What are isomers?

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12. What is the name of the process in which crude oil is separated into its various components?

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13. What is crude oil?

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14. State the general formula of alkanes

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15. Name this molecule

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16. What is the name given to the type of reaction that occurs when ethane reacts with bromine under UV light

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17. Why are alkenes classified as unsaturated hydrocarbons?

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18. What is a substance called if it, when burned, releases heat energy?

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19. What is the molecular formula for pentane?

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20. Explain the term saturated

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21. Recall the names of the main fractions obtained from crude oil, in order of lowest boiling point first

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22. What is the name of this molecule?

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23. When bromine is added, what happens to an alkene?

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24. A student names this molecule 2-ethylpentane. Which of these statements is true about the student's naming of the molecule?

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25. What is meant by the term viscosity?

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26. Write a chemical equation for the cracking of decane

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27. Why does incomplete combustion occur?

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28. Explain the term hydrocarbon

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29. A pupil has tried to write down various ways of representing ethane using: molecular formula, displayed formula, general formula, empirical formula and stuctural formula. However she has missed one out. Which one?

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