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Give the physical properties of alkenes

      

Give the physical properties of alkenes

  

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Wilfred
-Like alkanes, alkenes are colourles gases, solids and liquids that are not poisonous.
-They are slightly soluble in water. The solubility in water decrease as the carbon chain and as the molar mass increase but very soluble in organic solvents like tetrachloromethane and methylbenzene.
-The melting and boiling point increase as the carbon chain increase. This is because of the increase in van-der-waals /intermolecular forces as the carbon chain increase.
-The 1st four straight chain alkenes (ethene,propane,but-1-ene and pent-1-ene)are gases at room temperature and pressure.
-The density of straight chain alkenes,like alkanes, increase with increasing carbon chain as the intermolecular forces increases reducing the volume occupied by a given mass of the alkene
Wilfykil answered the question on February 18, 2019 at 06:33


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