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Both alkanes and alkenes are hydrocarbons, which means they only contain carbon and hydrogen atoms.

Alkanes are saturated hydrocarbo...

From the equation given in the question we can see that one mole of hydrochloric acid (HCl) reacts with one mole of sodium hydroxide (NaOH). 

The first thing to do is to work out the numb...

When they react, both chlorine and bromine need to accept an electron into their outer electron shell to complete the shell and form chloride and bromide ions. There are three factors that affect how e...

An easy way to remember the difference between Oxidation and Reduction is OIL RIG:

Oxidation

Is

Loss (of ele...

Any chemical that dissociates to give an H⁺ ion is classified as an acid.  There are stong and weak acids but at GCSE you only need to know some key reactions which apply to both weak and st...