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Alkane, an Uncommon card
In organic chemistry, an alkane, or paraffin, is an acyclic saturated hydrocarbon.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 81
- Power
- 160
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 160 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In other words, an alkane consists of hydrogen and carbon atoms arranged in a tree structure in which all the carbon–carbon bonds are single.
- Alkanes have the general chemical formula CnH2n+2 and therefore range in complexity from the simplest case of methane, where n = 1, to arbitrarily large and complex molecules, like hexacontane or 4-methyl-5- octane, an isomer of dodecane.
- The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry defines alkanes as "acyclic branched or unbranched hydrocarbons having the general formula CnH2n+2, and therefore consisting entirely of hydrogen atoms and saturated carbon atoms".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alkane article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 81: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alkane (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : SVG version by Patricia.fidi, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.



