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Petroleum is a complex mixture of organic liquids called crude oil and natural gas.
Crude oil and natural gas are extracted from the groundon land or under the oceans.
It consists of mainly alkanes like methane , ethane, propane and butane.
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How is petroleum separated into different compounds?
Fractional distillation
What is the largest materials needed to form carbon compounds?
They are natural gas, petroleum&&coal=)
What is hydrocabon?
Hydrocarbon is a compound hydrogen and carbon mixed together. This is the chief compounds of petroleum and natural gas.
Three materials that are derived from the chemical compounds in petroleum?
Vinyl acetat, vinyl chloride, and redin manufactore
Where can you usually found organic compounds?
Organic compounds naturally exist in all living specie (plants and animals including viruses) and in fossils fuels as natural gas and petroleum.
Is petroleum an organism?
No. Petroleum is a mixture of primarily organic compounds.
What do you mean by refining of petroleum?
It separates crude oil into fractions consisting of compounds with similar properties
How is petroleum separated into different compounds?
Fractional distillation
What type of bond does petroleum form?
Petroleum is a complex mixture not a compound; organic compounds have covalent bonds.
Is gasoline an organic or inorganic material?
No. Petroleum is a mixture of primarily organic compounds.
What are the main kinds of carbon compounds present in coal and petroleum?
It is hydrocarbons that make up most of coal and petroleum.
What is the differences between petroleum and uranium?
Petroleum is a fossil fuel, containing many organic compounds; burning of petroleum release thermal energy. Uranium is a radioactive metal; fission of uranium release a great quantity of nuclear energy.
Does petroleum decompose?
Petroleum can decompose only by microorganisms that use it as a source of energy. It can also be transformed into compounds such as water and carbon dioxide.
Is butane mixed with compounds or elements to make liquefied petroleum gas?
iranium
Process of separating petroleum into its individual compounds by boiling point?
fractional distillation
What is the same and different between uranium and petroleum?
Uranium is a radioactive metal. Petroleum is a complex mixture of organic compounds. Petroleum is a fossil fuel. All is different between uranium and petroleum. But uranium nuclear fission and petroleum burning release valuable energy.
Compounds that are made from oil are called?
I will answer this by first defining oil as the natural petroleum liquids as extracted from reservoirs. In terms of distinct chemical compounds, there are hundreds of identified compounds that may be contained in petroleum. Generally, they are broken into two groups, the organics and inorganic compounds. Organic compounds include alkanes, cycloalkanes and aromatic hydrocarbons. Inorganic compounds include nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur and trace amount of metals nickel, copper, iron, vanadium. A typical compositional analyses of petroleum will provide the content of each of the alkane components up to about C7 (including the isomers) and lump the remaining compounds as C7+ and the detectable H2S, O2 and N2. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum
