Can you name the straight-chain alkanes?

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Alkanes Quiz

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Created by: CharlesM -
Contributed: September 22nd, 2009
Published: September 29th, 2009
Category: Science
Plays: 46,709

Tags: Chemistry Quizzes, alkane, straight-chain, Organic Chemistry

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	Dirk:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 05:09 GMT	24 points
	This quiz makes me feel gassy...

	llewdor:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 06:00 GMT	5 points
	Great quiz, but the colour-scheme is terrible. I'm not confident this would even be legible on a CRT.

	sphenderson2008:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 06:35 GMT	2 points
	13/14 Of course I'd miss probably the most well known on the list, especially with how much King of the Hill I watch.

	geowiz85:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 06:38 GMT	2 points
	finally another quiz that puts my biochemistry degree to use

	davidr:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 07:10 GMT	9 points
	I wonder why they named 5-7 and 20 in Greek but 9 and 11 in Latin (the others from 8+ are both Latin and Greek).

	minor9th:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 08:40 GMT	-1 points
	Had to guess 20 and it gave it me even though I spelt it "icosane"

	gsroest:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 09:36 GMT	8 points
	i got some but ended up guessing things like "elevenane" and "twelvane." good thing i'm not a chem major

	gsroest:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 09:36 GMT	-4 points
	and now i just realized that eleven isn't even on the list. fail. i should read more carefully next time.

	gsroest:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 09:37 GMT	13 points
	oh wait. now i see it. double fail. sorry for the triple post

	Psycho:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 11:49 GMT	12 points
	More chemistry quizzes please!

	mjenks:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 12:55 GMT	1 point
	@davidr: Based on the alkenes, I'm guessing that ennene would have been too annoying to say, so they switched to Latin, at least for nonane. I'm guessing it was a similar rationale for eleven, though "hendecane/hendecene" would not have been as obnoxious to say. But, scientists go back and forth and mix Latin and Greek together all the time. Prime example is octopus.

	xandigee:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 13:15 GMT	1 point
	I can't believe I blanked on propane... Great quiz!

	orbit:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 14:22 GMT	5 points
	Regarding the prefixes, they're not just for alkanes, but all organic compounds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUPAC_numerical_multiplier

	Jordan117:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 14:57 GMT	0 points
	Propane and propane accessories.

	Landowns:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 15:30 GMT	-3 points
	I'm in Organic chem now and I only got 10/13...wow

	rockgolf:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 16:13 GMT	2 points
	Hank Hill scored 1 on this test.

	davidr:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 16:29 GMT	5 points
	@mjenks: "octopus" is straight from the ancient Greek: okto = eight, pous = foot.

	tonightmatthew:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 16:42 GMT	2 points
	I thought I had forgotten all of these, but once I got into it I remembered 19. Hooray.

	ScottTheNurse:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 16:55 GMT	2 points
	This is a great quiz! I would love a picture quiz like this where we get to correctly name organic structures with their IUPAC name.

	eriechic:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 18:32 GMT	3 points
	YAY! for more chemistry quizzes!

	Tebow:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 19:02 GMT	0 points
	ahh... Organic Chemistry!

	zifyoip:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 20:09 GMT	20 points
	"Enter an alkane (last names acceptable) in the box below." Good, because I can never remember their first names.

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	Prepostosaurus:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 22:58 GMT	8 points
	MORE SCIENCE QUIZES!

	Justin:	Sep 30th, 2009 at 04:19 GMT	2 points
	I have a test in organic chem on naming branched and cycloalkanes tomorrow!!

	Robert_Seth:	Sep 30th, 2009 at 04:35 GMT	1 point
	greek roots FTW!

	davidr:	Sep 30th, 2009 at 11:14 GMT	6 points
	@zifyoip: That's Mr Methane, to you!

	mjenks:	Sep 30th, 2009 at 14:17 GMT	1 point
	davidr: I was referring to the "Latinization" of "okto" to "octo". I consider anything that's had it's k turned into a c to be a Latin word.

	davidr:	Sep 30th, 2009 at 21:01 GMT	2 points
	@mjencs (oops): If you insist, though I think it's reasonable to say that `octopus' is Latinized Greek rather than a combination of Latin and Greek. `Television' would have been a better example: `tele' is Greek and `vision' Latin.

	LaStic:	Oct 3rd, 2009 at 20:40 GMT	2 points
	Not in any way inane

	tato58:	Oct 28th, 2009 at 22:11 GMT	1 point
	Pretty easy if you remember your roots. (Then, I have to admit that I couldn't get my brain to cough up pent-!)

	Dunk:	Dec 13th, 2009 at 02:32 GMT	1 point
	I give 1000 internet points to Prepostosaurus for his Jim Anchower avatar.

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	3_1415:	Mar 4th, 2010 at 01:51 GMT	-1 points
	this is a good quiz http://www.sporcle.com/games/3_1415/words_from_element_symbols

	magic1:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 07:34 GMT	1 point
	i haven't done this since yr 12. 10/14. solid.

	zamboni:	Sep 19th, 2010 at 15:13 GMT	2 points
	Icosahedron... fine. Icosane... fail. I stink.

	PK9:	Oct 20th, 2010 at 00:07 GMT	1 point
	Stinking undecane. I guessed ondecane... shoulda remembered ununoctium :P

	kaze:	Feb 6th, 2011 at 10:20 GMT	2 points
	wow! the timer makes me forget what i have learned....!