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(a) What are hydrocarbons? Explain it wi...

(a) What are hydrocarbons? Explain it with examples.
(b) Explain the meaning of saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons with one examples each.
(c) Give the names and structural formulae of one saturated cyclic hydrocarbon and one unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon.
(d) Give one example of a hydrocarbon , other than pentane having more than three isomers.
(e) How many isomers of the following hydrocarbon are possible?
(i) `C_(3)H_(8),(ii)C_(4)H_(10),(iii)C_(5)H_(12),(iv)C_(6)H_(14)`

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(c ) Saturated cyclic hydrocarbon: Cyclohexane;Unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon: Benzene
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