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Q. Light hydrocarbons can be converted to a mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons by

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Alkanes on heating in absence of air at high temperature undergo pyrolysis (cracking) to give a mixture of lower hydrocarbons, alkenes, and $H_{2}$ .