Why alkanes called saturated hydrocarbons?
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they r called so because unsaturated hydrocarbons are those organic compounds which involves carbon to carbon single bond
and alkanes form single bond therefore they r called so....
and alkanes form single bond therefore they r called so....
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Alkanes are referred to as 'saturated' hydrocarbons because they do NOT contain a carbon C=C carbon double bond and other atoms cannot add to alkane molecules.
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