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How do the boiling points of alkenes and alkynes compare to those of alkanes

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The boiling points of alkenes and alkynes are much higher than boiling points of alkanes. Alkenes are organic compounds which contains double bonds between two carbon attoms. Alkynes contains three bonds between two carbon atoms. Alkanes, on the other hand, only has a single bond. Comparing the three, alkanes needs the least amount of energy to break the bonds since it only has a single bond.
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