Bromine water
What Bromine water means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
An orange solution used as a test for unsaturation, which is decolourised when shaken with an alkene.
An orange solution used as a test for the presence of an alkene.
Topics that use Bromine water
- Cracking and alkenes (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Addition reaction
- Alkane
- Alkenes
- Catalytic cracking
- Cracking
- Cracking of hydrocarbons
- Fractional distillation
- Fuels and energy resources
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