In general they are longer chained molecules.
Crude oil contains mixture of various types of hydrocarbons. The hydrocarbons are separated by fractional distillation. Different hydrocarbons have different boiling points and therefore after crude oil is heated, shorter chains of hydrocarbons which have lower boiling point will become gas and can be easily separated one by one from hydrocarbons with shorter chains to longer chains. The brief products are Petroleum Gas, Gasoline, Kerosone, Heating Oil, Lubricating Oil and Bitumen in order of increasing molecular size.
The more initiator molecules there are, the more chains get started. Since the chains compete for monomers, if there are 5 times as many chains obviously they will be shorter on average.
Lipids
PROTEINS
High
Complex carbon chains and rings, with other elements "decorating" this carbon backbone.
Crude oil contains mixture of various types of hydrocarbons. The hydrocarbons are separated by fractional distillation. Different hydrocarbons have different boiling points and therefore after crude oil is heated, shorter chains of hydrocarbons which have lower boiling point will become gas and can be easily separated one by one from hydrocarbons with shorter chains to longer chains. The brief products are Petroleum Gas, Gasoline, Kerosone, Heating Oil, Lubricating Oil and Bitumen in order of increasing molecular size.
The more initiator molecules there are, the more chains get started. Since the chains compete for monomers, if there are 5 times as many chains obviously they will be shorter on average.
CH2 chains
Lipids
PROTEINS
no
Depends on what type of molecule you're talking about. The side chains (rungs) differ depending on what the molecule is.
High
a monomer
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Gas is a phase of a substance. Boiling is the point when a substance chains from liquid to gas. So if it is already gas, it has already reached the boiling point.