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Long chain alkanes are thermally cracked to shorter alkanes and alkene fragments.

         
  +  
3
H2C=CH2
  +  
2
CH3–CH=CH2
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Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
British A-Level Chemistry: AS
Cracking, Thermal
Radical Cleavage

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