Alkanes and Cracking Quiz

What do you know about alkanes?

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How does cracking work?

Cracking breaks down large alkanes, meaning alkanes with very long carbon chains, into smaller alkanes as well as an alkene. Look at the example to understand how this happens. Notice that the equation for this reaction would be balanced since there is the same number of atoms of products as reactants. 

Cracking example equation