Author Question: The heating of large hydrocarbon compounds with a catalyst in the absence of oxygen is called A) ... (Read 33 times)

plus1 · **on:** Aug 27, 2018

The heating of large hydrocarbon compounds with a catalyst in the absence of oxygen is called

A) cracking.
B) catalysis.
C) reforming.
D) flocculation.

Question 2

Carbon-14 dating of ancient objects is particularly effective because C-14

A) has the shortest half-life.
B) is continuously produced in the upper atmosphere and its ratio to C-12 in living systems and the environment is constant.
C) is a stable isotope and is therefore particularly easy to work with.
D) decays by a simple fission reaction.