Sentence examples for alkane from inspiring English sources

That means each of its molecules contains an oxygen atom as well as the carbon and hydrogen found in an alkane.

An unbranched alkane has a more extended shape, thereby increasing the number of intermolecular attractive forces that must be broken in order to go from the liquid state to the gaseous state.

The suffix -e of the parent alkane is changed to -one to show that the compound is a ketone.

Two molecules of H2 add to the triple bond to give an alkane under the usual conditions of catalytic hydrogenation.

Higher alkenes and alkynes are named by counting the number of carbons in the longest continuous chain that includes the double or triple bond and appending an -ene (alkene) or -yne (alkyne) suffix to the stem name of the unbranched alkane having that number of carbons.

With a general formula of CnH2n (n is an integer greater than 2), they have two fewer hydrogen atoms than an alkane with the same number of carbon atoms.

That gives butanol more energy for a given mass and makes it more alkane-like in its properties; nor does it absorb water as readily as ethanol.

In addition, thiols prepared from alkanes retain the -e in the name of the alkane for example, butanethiol and ethanethiol as opposed to the alcohols butanol and ethanol.

Codexis's enzymes and bacteria can turn sugar into molecules called straight-chain alkanes which have between 12 and 16 carbon atoms in them.

And Virent, based in Madison, Wisconsin, is making alkanes out of sugars using a chemical, rather than a biological, process.Gevo, of Englewood, Colorado, which filed for flotation on NASDAQ in August, is planning to make another type of post-ethanol fuel: butanol.

LS9, which is based in South San Francisco (a separate municipality that has a cluster of biotech companies), also uses bacteria to make straight-chain alkanes.