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silanes
Seeing as silanes and cyclosilanes are very similar to alkanes, why can't they be used as gasoline?
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For one thing, your engine would quickly become full of SiO2, which is not a gas that easily leaves the engine like CO2 does.
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We use hydrocarbons because we don´t have to synthetise it, they are here natural. If we had to synthestise hydrocarbons than it will be very
expensive and nobody will use it for fuel. Silanes aren´t naturally occurring so they are much more expensive.
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They also tend to be pyrophoric. The activation energy for the combustion of a silane is much small than that of a hydrocarbon, probably because
silicon has available d orbitals, and can form five-coordinate intermediates a lot more easily (same reason that SiCl4 hydrolyzes rapidly, while CCl4
does not).
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