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A Hydrocarbon C₄H₁₀ has a boiling point of 0, another hydrocarbon C₆H₁₄ has a boiling point of 69. What would you expect the boiling point of C₈H₁₈ to be?

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Pretty sure it would be at 138 
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If the trend is linear, that is boiling point increases by a constant amount for each additional saturated carbon, the boiling point of octane would be 69*2 because you are adding two saturated carbons. So the predicted boiling point is 138C, which is very close to the literature value
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