Organic Chemistry

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Total cards: 24•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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Front (Question)

Name the three fossil fuels.

Back (Answer)

coal, natural gas and petroleum

Front (Question)

What is the main constituent of natural gas?

Back (Answer)

methane

Front (Question)

Define the term ‘hydrocarbon’.

Back (Answer)

Compounds containing hydrogen and carbon only

Front (Question)

What process is used to separate petroleum into its fractions?

Back (Answer)

Fractional distillation

Front (Question)

What is petroleum?

Back (Answer)

a mixture of hydrocarbons

Front (Question)

What is a fraction?

Back (Answer)

a group of hydrocarbons with similar chain lengths

Front (Question)

What are features of fractions obtained from petroleum at the top of the fractionating column?

Back (Answer)

• lower boiling points - runny- volatile- smaller chain length

Front (Question)

What are features of fractions obtained from petroleum at the bottom of the fractionating column?

Back (Answer)

• higher boiling points- viscous- low volatility- bigger chain length

Front (Question)

What is the order of the fractions, from the smallest chain to the largest?

Back (Answer)

refinery gas, gasoline, naphtha, paraffin, diesel oil , fuel oil , lubricating fraction, bitumen

#10

Front (Question)

What is the use of refinery gas?

Back (Answer)

heating and cooking

#11

Front (Question)

What is the use of gasoline?

Back (Answer)

fuel in cars

#12

Front (Question)

What is the use of naphtha?

Back (Answer)

chemical feedstock

#13

Front (Question)

What is the use of paraffin?

Back (Answer)

jet fuel

#14

Front (Question)

What is the use of diesel oil?

Back (Answer)

fuel used in diesel engines

#15

Front (Question)

What is the use of fuel oil?

Back (Answer)

fuel in ships and home heating systems

#16

Front (Question)

What is the use of lubricating oil?

Back (Answer)

for lubricants, waxes and polishes

#17

Front (Question)

What is the use of bitumen?

Back (Answer)

making roads

#18

Front (Question)

What is the general formula of alkanes?

Back (Answer)

CnH2n+2

#19

Front (Question)

What is the general formula of alkenes?

Back (Answer)

CnH2n

#20

Front (Question)

What is a functional group?

Back (Answer)

an atom or a group of atoms that determine the chemical properties of a homologous series

#21

Front (Question)

What is a structural formula?

Back (Answer)

an unambiguous description of the way atoms in a molecule are arranged

#22

Front (Question)

What are structural isomers?

Back (Answer)

compounds with the same molecular formula, but different structural formulae

#23

Front (Question)

What is a homologous series?

Back (Answer)

a family of similar compounds with similar chemical properties due to the presence of the same functional group

#24

Front (Question)

What is a saturated compound?

Back (Answer)

contains molecules containing only C-C single bonds