If the sawtooth pattern of melting point behavior is explained by the efficiency of crystal packing, what

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If the “sawtooth” pattern of melting point behavior is explained by the efficiency of crystal packing, what would we expect to find if we were to plot the density of the crystal (solid) form of unbranched alkanes against carbon number?

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Organic Chemistry

ISBN: 9781936221349

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Authors: Marc Loudon, Jim Parise

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