What are the main natural sources of alkane
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The alkanes are isolated from natural gas and petroleum. Natural gas contains mainly methane, with smaller amounts of other low‐molecular‐weight alkanes. Petroleum, which is a complex mixture of many compounds, is the main source of all other alkanes.
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Alkanes are chemical compounds that consist of carbon (C) and hydrogen (H) atoms, so they are also called hydrocarbons. The chemical structure of alkanes only consists of single bonds.
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- The main source of alkanes are petroleum and natural gas found in the crust of earth. They are formed by high temperature and pressure and under anaerobic conditions from the plants and organisms that were buried long time back.
- Crude oil can be fractionally distilled to obtain various products varying in the length of alkyl chain. Higher fractions can also contain cycloalkanes.
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