How does your natural gas reach your home? There’s a technology, called hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” that can extract this natural gas, potentially powering us for decades to come. So how does fracking work and why is it a source of such heated controversy?
Fractional Distillation to obtain useful fractions
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Cracking to form useful products
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Cracking of Alkane
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Alkane
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Alkene
Animation: Addition with Bromine in Alkene
Alcohol, - OH (hydroxyl group)
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Tattoo inks use organic (carbon-based) pigments. These come from a various families of compounds, including azo dyes for reds, yellows and oranges, and phthalocyanine dyes for blues and greens. It’s estimated that over 80% of tattoo ink colourants are now organic compounds. 60% of these are from the azo dye family.
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Carboxylic Acid
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Find the functional group of carboxylic acid.