Making crude oil useful

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What is crude oil made from?
The remains of living things that became buried in the seabed millions of years ago, chemical reactions happened to turn it into crude oil.
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What is a non- renewable resource?
it is being used up much faster than it can form
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Apart from crude oil, name 2 other fossil fuels?
coal, natural gas
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What is a finite resource?
something that will run out if we continue to use it at the same rate because there is a limited amount.
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What is the process used to separate crude oil?
fractional distillation
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a fractionating column has..
a temperature gradient
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where do hydrocarbons with low boiling points leave the fractionating column?
the top
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where do hydrocarbons with low boiling points leave the fractionating column?
the bottom
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what do covalent bonds join together?
atoms in hydrocarbon molecules
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the larger hydrocarbon the higher...
its boiling point (stronger intermolecular forces)
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small hydrocarbons leave the colomn as a...
a gas
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large hydrocarbons leave the colomn as a...
a solid
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