{"id":27233,"date":"2024-10-14T08:13:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T02:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27233"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:35:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:05:31","slug":"alkanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/alkanes\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Alkanes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Alkanes:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Alkanes are <strong>organic compounds<\/strong> that consist e<strong>ntirely of single-bonded carbon and hydrogen atoms<\/strong> and lack any other functional groups.<\/li>\n<li>Alkanes have the general formula <strong>CnH2n + 2 (<\/strong>where n is an integer).<\/li>\n<li>Alkanes can be subdivided into three groups: the <strong>linear straight-chain alkanes,branched<\/strong> alkanes, <strong>and cycloalkanes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They show <strong>little chemical affinity for other substances<\/strong> and are <strong>chemically inert<\/strong> to most laboratory reagents.<\/li>\n<li>They are also <strong>relatively inert biologically<\/strong> and are not often involved in the chemistry of living organisms.<\/li>\n<li>Alkanes do, <strong>however, react with oxygen, halogens<\/strong>, and a few other substances under appropriate conditions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reaction with oxygen occurs during combustion<\/strong> in an engine or furnace <strong>when an alkane is used as a fuel<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>Carbon dioxide and water are formed as products, and a large amount of heat is released.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>They are commercially very important, being the <strong>principal constituent of gasoline<\/strong> and <strong>lubricating oils <\/strong>and are extensively employed in organic chemistry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Examples<\/strong> of alkane include <strong>methane, ethane, <\/strong>propane, butane, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What are halogens?<\/h3>\n<p>Halogens are any of the six nonmetallic elements that constitute Group 17 (Group VIIa) of the periodic table. The halogen elements are: fluorine (F), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), iodine (I), astatine (At), and tennessine (Ts).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/catalyst-magic-game-changing-method-for-alkane-activation-discovered-in-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Catalyst Magic: Game-Changing Method for Alkane Activation Discovered in Japan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alkanes are organic compounds that consist entirely of single-bonded carbon and hydrogen atoms and lack any other functional groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}