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In petrol chemical industries, long chain alkanes are broken down in to simpler substances in a process called cracking a) Why is cracking necessary? b) State the...

In petrol chemical industries, long chain alkanes are broken down in to simpler substances in a process called cracking
a) Why is cracking necessary?
b) State the two conditions required in cracking
c) Draw the structure of 1-chloro-2, 2-dimethylpropane

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a) To produce simpler hydrocarbons of industrial importance for example, ethane which is widely used

b) Elevated temperature / high temperature 900 C

Catalyst
c) HC - C CH3

maurice.mutuku answered the question on October 17, 2019 at 10:39

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