What is alcohol? Answer the questions with the help of structural formula hydrocarbon given below: Н-СОС-Н i) Name the hydrocarbon given. ii) is this hydrocarbon saturated or unsaturated? Why?
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Answer i)
An alcoholic drink is a drink that contains ethanol, a type of alcohol produced by fermentation of grains, fruits, or other sources of sugar that acts as a drug. The consumption of alcohol plays an important social role in many cultures.
2)Saturated Hydrocarbons — contain only carbon- carbon single bonds. Unsaturated Hydrocarbons — contain carbon- carbon double or triple bonds (more hydrogens can be added). In the carbon-carbon double bond, two pairs of electrons are being shared, leaving the carbon free to bond to two other things
A saturated hydrocarbon is the hydrocarbon in which all its carbon-carbon bonds are single. e.g alkanes like ethane ,propane. An unsaturated hydrocarbon,however, is the one in which some carbon-carbon bonds can be double or triple. e.g alkenes like ethene have double bonds while alkynes like ethyne have triple bonds.
