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Crude oil, hydrocarbons and cracking

Chemistry: rates, organic chemistry, analysis and the Earth · Lesson 2 of 5

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Lesson 2 of 5 · Chemistry: rates, organic chemistry, analysis and the Earth

Crude oil, hydrocarbons and cracking

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Describe crude oil as a finite mixture of hydrocarbons, the alkane homologous series (CₙH₂ₙ₊₂) and the first four alkanes
Explain how fractional distillation separates crude oil, and how boiling point, viscosity and flammability change with chain length
Write balanced equations for the complete combustion of hydrocarbons and describe the products of incomplete combustion

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