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Does burning petrol release energy?
Petrol is a fossil fuel made from crude oil and burning fossil fuels produce energy so yes burning petrol does release energy.
What needs to be done to a fuel to release the energy stored in it?
The process of combustion combines fuel with oxygen, to produce carbon dioxide and heat. If the fuel is burned in a boiler to produce steam, this heat energy is converted to pressure energy in the steam. The pressure energy is converted to rotating kinetic energy as the steam spins a turbine. Finally the rotating kinetic energy is converted to electric energy in the generator.
What does nuclear energy release?
It releases heat through absorption of the kinetic energy of the fragments of fission in the material of the fuel rods (talking of nuclear reactors, not weapons)
What kind of energy does fission produce?
The initial energy release creates kinetic energy in the fission fragments which fly apart, but they are quickly brought to rest in the surrounding fuel material and this generates heat.
Fuel oil has potential energy because of what?
Fuel oil has chemical energy; chemical energy is a type of potential energy.
What burns fuel to produce energy?
Oxygen in the air reacts with the fuel in a process called combustion to release energy
What makes the energy in fossil fuel?
the chemical which are present in these when burnt release energy
What fuel is the sun using to release energy?
Our sun, Sol, uses hydrogen for fuel.
What is the name of a chemical that is burned to release useable energy?
fuel
What name do you give to a substance to release energy?
A substance to release energy is usually called a fuel. A chemical reaction that releases energy is called exothermic.
What happens when fuel such as coal or gasoline burns?
we release the potential energy to heat energy to do work
How does biofuel release chemical energy?
As any fossil fuel biodiesel burn and release heat.
Why is water not considered a fuel?
A fuel is a chemical substance that can react with the oxygen in air to form new substances and release energy. Water can not react with the oxygen in air as it is already an oxide. It has no molecular energy stored in it to release.
What name do you give the substance that you burn to release its energy?
The common name is fuel
What energy is released by fossil fuels?
Fossil fuel are burnt to release HEAT
Does burning petrol release energy?
Petrol is a fossil fuel made from crude oil and burning fossil fuels produce energy so yes burning petrol does release energy.
How can nuclear power plants release so much energy from so little fuel?
There are many reasons why power plants release so much energy from so little fuel. They really use the energy efficiently harvested from every single charged atom.
