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Question
One of the following contains a double bond as well as single bonds. This is:
(a) CO2
(b) O2
(c) C2H4
(d) C2H2
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Solution
(c) C2H4
An ethene molecule (C2H4) contains one double bond between two carbon atoms and four single bonds between carbon and hydrogen atoms.
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