| 31. | Many solid alkanes find use as paraffin wax, for example, in candles.
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| 32. | Specific examples include paraffin waxes in the straight-chain n-alkanes series.
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| 33. | In terms of reactivity, cyclobutane is relatively inert and behaves like ordinary alkanes.
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| 34. | There is ( in principle ) a silicon analogue for all carbon alkanes derivatives.
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| 35. | Barium chromate is also used in the composition of a catalyst for alkane dehydration.
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| 36. | Recent work on alkane metathesis has received attention.
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| 37. | For example, alkenes can be reduced to alkanes, or formaldehyde to methanol.
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| 38. | Joback assumed a constant contribution of added groups in homologous series like the alkanes.
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| 39. | The number of carbon atoms may be thought of as the size of the alkane.
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| 40. | Alkanes experience intermolecular van der Waals forces.
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