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Q: How does carbon get into fossil fuels?
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Is carbon fossil fuel?

No, carbon is in fossil fuels.


Is the role of fossil fuels in the carbon cycle?

The role of fossil fuels in the carbon cycle is to produce carbon dioxide. Fossil fuels are considered to be the highest contributors to pollution of the environment.


What is alternative fossil fuels?

Fossil fuels come from fossilied plant matter in the ground. Alternative fuels are alternatives to fossil fuels, and these are mainly carbon fuels that take their carbon from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (as fossil fuels do) but on a carbon cycle with a much shorter term. An example is wood, which can be burned as more trees are growing and absorbing carbon dioxide.


By what process is the carbon in fossil fuels released into the atmosphere?

Burning of the fossil fuels releases the carbon dioxide.


What process is the carbon in fossil fuels released into the atmosphere?

Burning of the fossil fuels releases the carbon dioxide.


What Fossil fuels are part of which cycle?

All fossil fuels are part of the carbon cycle.


Are fossil fuels carbon-based?

Burning fossil fuels releases carbon into the atmosphere in the form of CO2. Yes.


Halogens are the basis of all fossil fuels?

Halogens are not the basis of all fossil fuels. Carbon is the basis of fossil fuels and it is not a halogen.


People return carbon stored in fossil fuels to the carbon-oxygen cycle by burning what?

By burning the fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are natural fuels such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.


Is carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel formation?

No, formation of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.Burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide.


How does carbon end up in fossil fuels?

Fossil fuels (coal, oil natural gas, peat) are made from ancient plant and animal life. Plants and animals are mde from carbon compounds. As a consequence, fossil fuels contain carbon.


Why we need the carbon?

Carbon is the element of the life and fossil fuels.