For that reason acetylene orethane are the preferred gases in some laboratories.
Acetylene combines with hydrogen in the presence of platinum black, and ethylene and then ethane result.
The reactions between ethane and ethylene with an equal volume of oxygen would be represented as follows:-- Stage 1.
As a crucial test decisive against the hypothesis of preferential carbon oxidation, Bone cites the experiment of firing a mixture of equal volumes of ethane and oxygen sealed up in a glass bulb.
We derived this substance from ethaneby introducing a methyl group; hence it may be termed "methylethane.
These last two compounds are termed unsaturated, whereas ethane is saturated.
This compound may be considered as derived from methane, CH4, by replacing a hydrogen atom by the monovalent group CH3, known as methyl; hence ethane may be named "methylmethane.
In methane and ethane the hydrogen atoms are of equal value, and no matter which one may be substituted by another element or group the same compound will result.
