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Give the structural difference between saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons with an example each.

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`{:("Saturated hydrocarbons"," Unsaturated hydrocarbons "),("They have a single bond ","They have double or triple "),("between carbon atoms ","bonds between carbon atoms "):}`
`underset("Methane")(H-underset(H)underset(|)overset(H)overset(|)(C )-H) " " underset("Ethane")(H-underset(H)underset(|)overset(H)overset(|)(C )-underset(H)underset(|)overset(H)overset(|)(C )-H)`
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