Use the drop-down menus to match the alkanes with the correct name. CH3CH2CH2CH2CH2CH2CH2CH3

CH3CH2CH2CH3

CH4
CH3CH2CH2CH2CH2CH2CH2CH2CH2CH3

CH3CH3

the answers are :
octane
butane
methane
decane
ethane

while cooking a piece of 1/2 pound beef steak, a cast iron pan (2.4kg in weight) was heated 260 celsius.

substituting a hydrogen atom with a halogen in a hydrocarbon:

- the single bond remains single. a is wrong.

- the bond with hydrogen is as strong as with a halogen. c is wrong

- a hydrocarbon is saturated if there is no double bond. we do not know that so d is wrong.

- carbon will always have four valence electrons. e is wrong.

by elimination, the correct answer is b. the boiling point of the new compound increases.