• Question: what are alkines?

    Asked by mollymoo to Cesar, Emily, Jamie, Kate, Philippa on 15 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Philippa Demonte

      Philippa Demonte answered on 12 Jun 2011:

      Hi @mollymoo I’m not a chemist – but maybe this website can help unless one of the other scientists knows the answer:

      http://www.chemicalelements.com/groups/alkaline.html

    • Photo: Kate Clancy

      Kate Clancy answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I could Google it, or I could just admit that I don’t know. I’m a human evolutionary biologist! 🙂

    • Photo: Jamie Gallagher

      Jamie Gallagher answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      Well i’m resident chemist! Sadly I don’t do anything with carbon.
      An alkane is a chain of carbon atoms in which all the free bonds are taken up by hydrogen atoms
      An alkene is a similar chain but is unsaturated. This means that there is a carbon- carbon double bond in the chain.

      I couldnt tell you what an alkine is though.

    • Photo: Emily Robinson

      Emily Robinson answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Oh dear I can’t answer this one either… chemistry has always been my weak point. Sorry!

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