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Alkyl radicals can abstract hydrogen from alkanes. Primary radicals react to generate secondary radicals.

This process occurs during the thermal cracking of long chain hydrocarbons.

Industrial Organic Chemistry, 3rd. Ed. K. Weissermel, H.-J. Arpe, VCH (1997)

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Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
Cracking, Thermal
Radical Substitution

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