Question

The by-product of the chlorination of an alkane is​

Answer 1

The by-product of the chlorination of an alkane is​  HCl

Explanation:

• Chlorination is the process of adding chlorine to drinking water to disinfect it and kill germs. Different processes can be used to achieve safe levels of chlorine in drinking water.
• Chlorination of alkane gives a mixture of different products.
• When consider mechanism of alkanes chlorination, free radicals are formed during the reaction to keep the continuous reaction.
• Different alkyl chloride compounds, extended carbon chains compounds and HCl are formed as products in product mixture.
• Chlorination byproducts, their toxicodynamics and removal from drinking water.
• Halogenated trihalomethanes (THMs) and haloacetic acids (HAAs) are two major classes of disinfection byproducts (DBPs) commonly found in waters disinfected with chlorine
• Chlorine is available as compressed elemental gas, sodium hypochlorite solution (NaOCl) or solid calcium hypochlorite (Ca(OCl)2