Chemistry
Identify the statement that is incorrect about alkanes :
A: They are hydrocarbons.
B: There is a single covalent bond between carbon and hydrogen.
C: They can undergo both substitution as well as addition reactions.
D: On complete combustion they produce carbon dioxide and water.
Related Questions
Give a chemical test to distinguish between : Ethene gas and ethane gas.
Give balanced equations for the laboratory preparations of:
(i) A saturated hydrocarbon from iodomethane.
(ii) An unsaturated hydrocarbon from an alcohol.
(iii) An unsaturated hydrocarbon from calcium carbide.
(iv) An alcohol from ethyl bromide.
Give the structural formulae for :
(i) An isomer of n-butane.
(ii) 2-propanol.
(iii) Diethyl ether.
Give suitable chemical term for:
A reaction in which hydrogen of an alkane is replaced by a halogen.