Chemistry 1A - Products from Rocks: Crude Oil

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What is crude oil and what is it an example of?
Crude oil is formed over millions of years from the buried remains of plants and animals - it's a fossil fuel.
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Crude oil is a mixture of...?
Hydrocarbons.
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What is a mixture?
A mixture consists of two or more elements or compounds that aren't chemically bonded to each other.
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Crude oil is a mixture of many different compounds. But what type of compounds are they?
Hydrocarbon molecules.
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What are hydrocarbons made of?
Carbon and hydrogen atoms.
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The parts of a mixture can be separated out by physical methods. Name an example.
Crude oil can be split up into its seperate parts (called fractions) by fractional distillation.
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Name all 7 fractions of crude oil from the bottom of the fractioning column to the top.
1. Bitumen 2. Oil 3. Diesel 4. Kerosene 5. Naphtha 6. Petrol 7. Refinery Gas
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What is the boiling point of Oil?
340 Degrees
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What is the boiling point of diesel?
250 Degrees
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What is the boiling point of Kerosene?
180 Degrees
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What is the boiling point of naphtha?
110 Degrees
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What is the boiling point of petrol?
40 Degrees.
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What is the length of the refinery gas molecule?
3.
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What is the length of the petrol molecule?
8
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What is the length of the Naphtha molecule?
10
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What is the length of the Kerosene molecule?
15
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What is the length of the Diesel molecule?
20
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What is the length of the Oil molecule?
35
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What is the length of the Bitumen molecule?
40.
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All of the fractions of crude oil are hydrocarbons named what?
Alkanes.
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What are alkanes made up of?
Chains of carbon atoms surrounded by hydrogen atoms.
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What is the difference between the alkanes?
They each have different lengths.
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Name the first four alkanes.
Methane, Ethane, Propane, Butane.
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What is the formula for Methane?
CH4.
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What is the formula for Ethane?
C2H6.
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What is the formula for Propane?
C3H8.
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What is the formula for Butane?
C4H10
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How many bonds does Carbon form?
4.
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How many bonds does Hydrogen form?
1.
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The alkanes have formed single binds with as many other atoms as they can. What does this mean?
They are saturated.
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What is the general formula for an alkane?
CnH2n+2
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Using the general formula for alkanes, how many hydrogen atoms would an alkane with 40 carbon atoms have?
82.
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Complete the sentence: The shorter the molecule of a hydrocarbon, the less...
...viscous and more runny the hydrocarbon is.
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Complete the sentence: The shorter the molecule of a hydrocarbon, the lower the...
...boiling point of the hydrocarbon.
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Complete the sentence: The shorter the molecule of a hydrocarbon, the more...
...flammable the hydrocarbon is.
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What is the common use for refinery gas?
Bottled gas.
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Why is refinery gas used for it's purpose?
It has the lowest boiling point of all the hydrocarbon fractions. It is a gas at room temperature.
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Is oil renewable or non-renewable?
Non-renewable.
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