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Aliphatic hydrocarbons questions

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# Question
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Use the following chemical structures of ethane and ethene molecules to answer the questions that follow.

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  1. What are the hybridizations of carbon atoms in each compound?
  2. Use well labeled diagrams to describe types of C-C bonds in each compound.
  3. In ethane molecule, each C-H has a bond length of 1.09AA and C-C has bond length of 1.54AA . Briefly explain this observation.
  4. The C-C double bond in ethene (bond length 1.34AA ) is shorter than C-C single bond in ethane (bond length 1.54AA ). Briefly explain this observation.

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