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Saturated hydrocarbons have only single bonds between carbon atoms.
Saturated hydrocarbons
Saturated hydrocarbons sometimes burn with smoky flame upon combustion while unsaturated hydrocarbons always burn with non-smoky or blue flame. This is on account of the reason that for the same number of carbon atoms in their molecular formula, saturated hydrocarbons have more number of hydrogen atoms as compared to unsaturated hydrocarbons.
A type of hydrocarbon that contains carbon atoms connected only by a single bond is called saturated hydrocarbon. It is the simplest form of the hydrocarbon species.
Lipids are strands of hydrocarbons, H atoms covalently bonded to C atoms.
Saturated hydrocarbons have every possible bonding site on the carbon backbone that could bond to a hydrogen bonded to a hydrogen. All carbon-carbon bonds are single. These hydrocarbons are rigid and have high melting temperatures. Lard, Crisco, Butter, and Margarine are saturated.Unsaturated hydrocarbons don't and therefor contain one or more double or triple carbon-carbon bond(s). These hydrocarbons are "floppy" and have lower melting temperatures. Cooking and Salad oils are unsaturated.
A saturated hydrocarbon is one where all the carbon atoms are bonded to four other atoms. An unsaturated hydrocarbon is one where some of the carbon atoms aren't (an example being an alkene due to the carbon carbon double bond).
The terms saturated and unsaturated or typically used for hydrocarbons -- long chains of carbon atoms. A chain is saturated when there are no double bonds between any carbon atoms. The term unsaturated fat is based on this very idea.
all the single bonded hydrocarbons are saturated ... they do not add up further hydrogen or other atoms ... they are of two types 1- alkanes 2- cyclo alkanes....
what distinguishing characteristic is common in the names of saturated hydrocarbons?
Saturated hydrocarbon cannot bond with compounds anymore, where as unsaturated hydrocarbons can bond, as they contain double or triple bonds. When they bond, the double and triple bonds break and new separate single bonds are formed with hydrogens or any other external compounds.
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