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Oct 8, 2015
It is an unsaturated hydrocarbon, in other words, it contains hydrogen and carbon only, with at least 1 carbon-carbon double bond.
The length of the carbon chain can be anything and the number of double bonds can be anything, and side chains may also be included.
Some examples of alkenes would be ethane, propene, but-1-ene, but-2-ene, 2-methyl-hex-1-ene, etc.
The general formula is
