Why is cracking important to use?
Cracks the fuels
Takes long, less useful hydrocarbons and makes them into shorter, more useful hydrocarbons
What bonds are broken during cracking?
Covalent bonds
Inter molecular bonds
Why are long hydrocarbon chains not useful?
Because they are used for things we need less of like paraffin.
They are used for things like petrol
What two types of hydrocarbons are produced in cracking?
Ethene and Alkene
Paraffin and Petrol
Why is ethene useful?
It helps make plastic
It destroys plastic
What other product from cracking is made that we are reliant upon?
Petrol
Parrafin
How does cracking appease the problem between supply and demand?
By leveling out the supply and demand because we are making more of what we need by using the factors we have more of.
It makes more of the factors we don't need.
