Simply put, hydrocarbon cracking is the process of breaking a long chain of hydrocarbons into short ones. Cracking is the breakdown of a large alkane into smaller, more useful alkenes. The rate of cracking and the end products are strongly dependent on the temperature and presence of catalysts. In petrochemistry, petroleum geology and organic chemistry, cracking is the process whereby complex organic molecules such as kerogens or long-chain hydrocarbons are broken down into simpler molecules such as light hydrocarbons, by the breaking of carbon-carbon bonds in the precursors. Process whereby complex organic molecules are broken down into simpler molecules
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