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what is a crude oil

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a fossil fuel formed over millions of years from ancient remains of marine organisms

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define hydrocarbon

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compounds of carbon and hydrogen atoms ONLY

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what are the different possible bonds in a hydrocarbon molecule

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  • carbon __ carbon bonds
  • carbon __ hydrogen bonds
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what are the two things hydrocarbon molecules can consist of

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  • chains (with or without branches)
  • rings of carbon atoms
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what is a finite resource

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  • no longer being made or
  • being made extremely slowly
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why are sources from crude oil useful

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  • hydrocarbons are useful as fuels
  • and as feedstock for the petrochemical industry
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define feedstock

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starting material for an industrial chemical process

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define petrochemical industry

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involves the use and manufacture of substances from crude oil

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why can you use fractional distillation to seperate crude oil into simpler, more useful mixtures

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the different hydrocarbons have different boiling points

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what is a fraction in terms of crude oil

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a mixture of hydrocarbons with similar boiling points and number of carbon atoms

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what happens to the gas fraction in fractional distilaltion for crude oil

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doesn’t condense and leaves at the top

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what happens to the bitumen fraction in fractional distilaltion for crude oil

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doesn’t evaporate and leaves at the bottom

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what happens to the ‘other’ fraction in fractional distilaltion for crude oil

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they are liquid at room temp and are useful as fuels

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true or false: most hydrocarbons are alkanes

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true

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true or false: most hydrocarbons are alkenes

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false

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16
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what happens as the number of carbon and hydrogen atoms in a hydrocarbon molecule increase

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  • the strength of the intermolecular forces increases
  • more energy must be transfered to overcome these forces
  • the boiling point increases
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what is an alkane

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form a homologous series of hydrocarbons

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what is a homologous series

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a series of compounds:
- in which molecular formulae of neighbouring members differ by CH2
- that show a gradual variation in physical properties
- that have similar chemical properties

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what happens when alkanes undergo complete combustion

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they form carbon dioxide and water vapour

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20
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what do alkanes end in

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ane

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21
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why does incomplete combustion happen

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when the supply of oxygen to a burning fuel is limited

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what happens in complete combustion

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  • hydrogen is oxidised to water vapout
  • carbon is oxidised to carbon dioxide
  • energy is transferred to surroundings by radiation as heat and light
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what happens in incomplete combustion

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  • carbon may be partially oxidised to carbon dioxide, CO
  • carbon may be released at carbon particles or soot
  • less energy is given out
24
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in combustion, what depends on how much carbon is produced

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how much oxygen is available for oxidation

25
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why is carbon monoxide bad

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  • attaches to haemoglobin in red blood cells
  • preventing oxygen from attaching
  • reducing th eoxygen carries around the body by bloodstream
26
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what two things makes carbon monoxide hard to detect

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  • colourless
  • odourless
27
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how can we detect gas

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electronic carbon monoxide detectors

28
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why is soot bad

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  • builds up in chimneys where it may eventually cause fires and blacken buildings
  • tiny soot particles may cause lung diseases such as bronchitis
  • or make existing lung diseases worse
29
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what is acid rain

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rain more acidic than usual

30
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how is acidic rain made

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when sulfur dioxide or oxides of nitrogen dissolves in water in the air

31
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how is sulfur dioxide created in the atmosphere

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  • hydrocarbon fuels contain impurities of sulfur compounds
  • when the fuel burns, the sulfur in these impurities are oxidsed
  • to form sulfur dioxide
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how are oxides of nitrogen created in the atmosphere

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  • air goes inside to engine so the fuel can burn
  • nitrogen and oxygen from the air react together at high tempuratures
  • in the engine to produce oxides of nitrogen
33
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what can acid rain do to our environment

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  • speeds up the weathering of buildings and statues
  • damages trees
  • acidifies rivers, lakes, sails - which harms organisms livin gin them
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how can we reduce problems caused by acid rain

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  • remover sulfur from fueks before selling
  • ‘flue gas desulfurisation’ - preventing sulfur dioxide leaving power station chimneys
  • adding calcium carbonate/hydroxide to fiels and lakes to neutralise excess acid from acid rain
35
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what else, other than petrol or diesel oils, can be used for cars

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hydrogen

36
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list the fossil fuels obtained from crude oil

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  • petrol
  • deisel oil
  • fuel oil
37
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what is petrol used in

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cars

38
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what is diesel oil used in

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cars and trains

39
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what is fuel oil used in

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large ships and power stations

40
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true or false: fossil fuels are non renewable

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true

41
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true or false: fossil fuels are renewable

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false

42
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what is a non renewable resource

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resources used up faster than they are formes

43
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give the symbol equation for the combustion of hydrogen

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2 H2 + O2 –> 2 H2O

44
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how can hydrogen be manufactures

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  • electrolysis of water
  • cracking of oil fractions
  • reaction of natural gas with steam
45
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give the symbol equation for the reaction of natural gas with steam

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CH4 (g) + 2 H2O (g) –> CO2 (g) + 4 H2 (g)

46
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what are the qualities of a good fuel

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  • burn easily (easy to ignite and stay alight)
  • not produce soot, smoke, or ash
  • release a lot of energy when it burns
  • easy to store and transport safely
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pros of petrol

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  • burns easily
  • doesn’t produce ash
  • a liquid (easy to store and transport)
  • releases more enrgy per kg than coal or wood
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cons of petrol

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  • produces carbon dioxide, monoxide and water
49
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pros of hydrogen as a fuel

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  • burns easily
  • doesn’t produce ash or smoke
  • only produces water
  • releases 3x more energy than petrol
50
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cons of hydrogen as a fuel

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  • gas (hard to store, at high temps)
  • filling stations have to be adapted
51
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what is cracking

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a process carried out on fractions in oil refineries after fractional distillation

52
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what is a summarized version of cracking

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breaking down larger alkanes into smaller, more useful alkanes (for fuels) and alkenes (for polymers)

53
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true or false: paraffin is an alkene

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false

54
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true or false: paraffin is an alkane

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true

55
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descrube how paraffin can be cracked

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  • the polous pot catalyst is heated strongly
  • liquid paraffin is heated and evaporates
  • paraffin vapour passes over the hot porous pot and the hydrocarbon molecules break down
  • one of the products is thene (gas) and collects in the other tube

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