Hydrocarbons and the environment

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1. Organic chemistry and hydrocarbons
2. Occurrence of hydrocarbons
3. Fractional distillation of crude oil
4. Saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons
5. General formulae of the families
6. Naming alkanes
7. Naming alkenes and alkynes
8. Isomers of alkanes
9. Isomers of alkenes
10. Preparing ethane
11. Preparing ethene
12. Physical properties of hydrocarbons
13. Combustion of alkanes
14. Substitution in alkanes
15. Cracking
16. Addition reactions of alkenes
17. Polymerisation
18. Oxidation and tests for unsaturation
19. Uses of hydrocarbons
20. Hydrocarbons and the environment