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What are saturated hydrocarbons ???

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Answer:

they are cyclic aliphatic hydrocarbon and alkanes

Step-by-step explanation:

the defenition of saturated is that it doesn't react easily or you can say compared to alkenes and alkynes the alkanes doesn't react easily due to lack of pi bonds an only sigma bonds exist

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Saturated hydrocarbons are hydrocarbons that contain only single bonds between carbon atoms. They are the simplest class of hydrocarbons. They are called saturated because each carbon atom is bonded to as many hydrogen atoms as possible. In other words, the carbon atoms are saturated with hydrogen.
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