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Alkanes and alkenes differ in that alkene molecules contain at least one:

A. oxygen atom
B. double bond
C. triple bond
D. chlorine atom

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Answer:

Double bond

Step-by-step explanation:

an alkene is a unsaturated hydrocarbon which means that it contain at least one double bond

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Answer:

The answer to your question is B. double bond.

Step-by-step explanation:

Both alkanes and alkenes are hydrocarbons composed by carbon and hydrogen.

The different between these compounds is that alkanes have only single bonds are are represented as: H H

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H - C - C - H

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H H

Alkenes have at least one double bound in their structure and are represented as

H - C = C - H

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H H

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