C1: Carbon Chemistry

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GCSE C1: Carbon Chemistry Mind Map on C1: Carbon Chemistry, created by PoppyOliver on 01/10/2015.
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C1: Carbon Chemistry
  1. C1a: Making Crude Oil Useful
    1. Fossil fuels are finite reasources and are non renewable
      1. Finite reasources are no longer being made or being made extremely slowly
        1. Non renewable reasources are being used up faster than they are being made
        2. Crude oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons
          1. All the readily extractable reasources will be used up in the future
            1. Finding Replacements
              1. Conflict between petrochemicals and fuels
              2. Environmental problems involved in the transport of crude oils
                1. Damage to Bird feathers causing death
                  1. Use of detergents to clean up oil spills and consequent damage to wild life
                  2. Political problems associated with crude oil
                    1. UK dependant on oil and gas from politically unstable countries
                      1. Future supply issues
                      2. Cracking - help match supply to demand
                        1. Fractional Disstillation
                          1. 1. Crude oil is heated
                            1. 2. Use of fractioning column which has a temperature gradient
                              1. 3. Fractions containing mixtures of hydrocarbons obtained
                                1. 4. fractions contain many substances with similar boiling points
                                  1. 5. Fractions with low boiling points exit form the top, high boiling points leave from the bottom
                          2. In a hydrocarbon molecule there are:
                            1. Strong covalent bonds between atoms
                              1. Weak intermolecular forces
                              2. Intermolecular forces between longer hydrocarbons are stronger than shorter
                                1. Intermolecular forces can break but covalent bonds don't
                                  1. Cracking is a process that converts large alkane molecules into smaller alkene and alkane molecules
                                    1. Makes useful alkene molecules into polymers
                                    2. C1b:
                                      1. C1c:
                                        1. C1d:
                                          1. C1e:
                                            1. C1f:
                                              1. C1g:
                                                1. C1h:
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