CRUDE OIL AND HYDROCARBONS

• What is a hydrocarbon

  Any compound formed by only carbon and hydrogen

  An example is : Alkane
• what are 4 alkanes required to memorise

  Methane

  Ethane

  Propane

  Butane
• acronym for 4 alkanes

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• What is general formula for Alkanes

  C to the power of n

  H to the power of 2n+2

  
• What is the series are hydrocarbons knows as and what does it mean

  Homologous series

  Similar properties and react in similar way
• along with hydrocarbon what is another name for alkanes and what does it mean

  Saturated compound

  Every carbon atom has 4 single covalent bonds

  carbon atoms are fully bonded to hydrogen atoms
• where is crude oil found

  rocks
• what type of resource is crude oil

  finite resource

  (if we continue using it then one day it will run out)
• crude oil is formed over millions of years from the remains of tiny sea creatures called plankton which were buried in mud
• crude oil is a mixture of molecules called hydrocarbon