This family (ethane, propane, butane, etc) of materials is likely to have following set of properties.
The alkanes are non- polar solvents.
The alkanes are immiscible in water but freely miscible in other non-polar solvent .
The alkanes are consisting of weak dipole dipole bonds can not breaks the strong hydrogen bond.
The alkanes having only carbon (C) and hydrogen (H) atom which is bonded by a single bonds only.
The alkanes posses weak force of attraction that is weak van der waals force of attraction.
The ethane, propane, butane, belong to alkanes family.The alkanes are also considers as saturated hudrocarbons. Ethane is found in gaseous stae Ethane is the second alkane followed by propane followed by butane.
There are many differentiates between them. Like if you standing these two mixture, the soil and water will separate while milk will not. And colloid have tyndall effect while soil and water doesn't have.
