The alkanes are the hydrocarbons where all of the carbons are bonded to the other carbon atoms by single bonds. Alkanes may exist in a chain structure (either straight or branched) or in a ring structure. Alkanes that are acyclic (not in a ring)...

A hydrocarbon in which the molecules have utilised all of the bonding electrons to make single bonds with other atoms – it does not contain any double or triple bonds. As a consequence the molecule possesses a full complement of hydrogen atoms...

These are also called paraffins. Lower alkanes are colorless gases or liquids but higher alkanes (17 or more carbons in the chain) are solids. There are straight chain alkanes, branched alkanes and cycloalkanes. The simplest alkane is...

n-Pentadecane Major volatile (84% of total) in the flower scent of Magnolia acuminata (Magnoliaceae). It occurs in other flower scents in lower amounts, together with similar hydrocarbons. Used in organic...

Alkanes, also known as paraffins, are chemical compounds that consist only of the elements carbon (C) and hydrogen (H) (i.e., hydrocarbons), wherein these atoms are linked together exclusively by single bonds (i.e., they are saturated compounds) without...

30p - Renewable energy generation - Renewable energy supplier Alkane Energy will come of age in 2006 as it starts to make significant profits for the first time. Rising oil prices are making the electricity it generates from coal-mine methane increasingly competitive. So...

Alkane's funding problems seem to be at an end so expansion can be speeded up. Nigel Bolitho Alkane has long term exploration rights over 4,500 sq km of the East Midlands and South Yorkshire coal fields. On them it now has seven...

Until this release, generally only DJs like Erol Alkan and Ewan Pearson could get their hands on Shakes’ electro-rockin’ tracks. The two English brothers, Matt and Darren Farrow, who make up Shakes, bang out the kind of deep bass and distorted synth dance-floor killers that...

Can You Read Me Now? A team of traffic-safety specialists, graphic artists, psychologists and vision experts have developed a new typeface specifi cally designed for highway signage. Ten years in the making, ClearviewHwy has now been approved by the Federal Highway Administration. It’s already appearing...