Alkanes with 10 hydrogens are insoluble in water

Answer 1

Hi Jaime B.,

That's a statement, not a question!

Perhaps you meant to ask, How soluble are alkanes with 10 H's (you shoud be able to write a linear structure with 4 C's and name it), and how does that relate to the standard IUPAC terms, "very soluble", "freely soluble", "soluble", "slightly soluble", "very slightly soluble", and "insoluble" !

So you should name the simple, linear alkane, then look up "solubility of ------ in water", then look up "slightly soluble" (which will bring you to "solubility of things.com") and match the solubility data to a named range.

The named ranges are for semi-quantitative convenience only; the actual solubility data are what you would consider in most problems. It's a little like saying a mushroom is "slightly pink to buff color"; you might use this description to eliminate certain colored fungi, but if you wanted to describe it more exactly, you would quantitate the color, e.g. by Lab* instrumentally-measured values. (Let alone if you were red-green color blind, as ~10% of guys are).

-- Cheers, -- Mr. d.