Fuels and Earth Science Flashcards
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What is Crude oil?
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Our main source of hydrocarbons and is used as a raw material to create lots of useful substances used in the petrochemical industry.
2
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Is Crude Oil Renewable or Non-renewable?
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Non-renewable (finite)
3
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Crude oil is a complex mixture of…
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Lots of different hydrocarbons.
4
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What are Hydrocarbons?
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Compounds which just contain Hydrogen and Carbon.
5
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How are carbon atom arranged in the hydrocarbons found in crude oil?
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Either chains or rings and are mostly alkanes.
6
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Crude oil can be separated out into…
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fractions.
7
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What are fractions?
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Simpler, more useful mixtures containing groups of hydrocarbons of similar lengths.
8
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How are the fractions in crude oil separated?
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By Fractional Distillation.
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