Is natural gas used to make plastic?

We get plastic from oil and natural gases. Oil and natural gas are the major raw materials used to manufacture plastics. They often start by treating the crude oil and natural gas. This changes it into hydrocarbon monomers.

We get plastic from oil and natural gases. Oil and natural gas are the major raw materials used to manufacture plastics. They often start by treating the crude oil and natural gas. This changes it into hydrocarbon monomers.

plastic is made from crude oil, natural gas, or coal

Plastics are usually derived from petroleum or natural gas.

Plastic, in most cases, is made from hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbons are a product of natural gas and crude oil. Natural gas and crude oil are limited natural resources (they are running out) Therefore, plastic is not an inexhaustible resource. and Plastic is a manufactured material Resources are recovered directly from the Earth or grown Therefore, plastic is not a resource

You can not make natural gas.....it is NATURAL.

It is called orangeburg but it is not plastic it is tar paper that is hard like plastic.

Rigid polystyrene plastic is a closed cell of light weight, rigid & foam plastic that is derived from petroleum and natural gas by products. It is hard plastic in one word. This is used to make plastic containers and insulators. On the other hand, expanded polystyrene is derived by expanding the regular foam molecules by 50 times their volume using a blowing agent (pentane gas). This is used to make packaging materials. Source: http://www.polystyrene.uk.com/

No, plastic is basically made from crude oil, natural gas, and other chemicals.

plastic petrolum and natural gas. the main ingredients are petroleum and natural gas That is a good question. A huge majority of plastic bags are made out of... well... plastic! Some plastic bags are biodegradable(which means that when they are dumped into a landfill after use, it degrades into the soil) which benefits the environment greatly. Contents of a plastic bag are commonly now greener and made from renewable resources, though some grocery stores STILL…

It varies with which plastic you're making, but most are made of petroleum and/or natural gas.

Plastic does not come from trees. It comes from oil and natural gas. The majority of commercial plastic comes specifically from petroleum and fossil fuels.

Power companies to generate electricity. Gas supply companies that put gas in tanks and sell to customers for heating and cooking fuel. Plastic, paint and steel manufacturers that use natural gas in their products. Fertilizer and chemical companies that make ammonia and other chemicals. Gas stations- some specialized gas stations in the US supply buses with gas, in other countries, like Pakistan, Argentina and Brazil, cars can run on natural gas. See related links.

There are several possible answers: * Natural gas is a mixture of hydrocarbons, mostly methane. * Propane is used instead of natural gas in areas where it does not make economic sense to install natural gas pipelines. * Butane is commonly used in camping stoves.

methane, odour is added to make it natural gas

Oil is used for things including making all different types of plastic like polyester and nylon

Plastic polymersÊcan be made from plants, oil, or even natural gas. It can be a synthetic plastic or a semi-synthetic as long as it is a moldable solid polymer.

Plastic in itself doesn't cause Global Warming. When we fail to recycle plastics we force manufacturers to use more oil to make more plastic. The factories use energy, which is usually generated by burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas). This burning releases carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas which is causing Global Warming.

If you waste plastic, like throwing a plastic drink bottle into landfill, instead of recycling it, you add a small amount to greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere. This is because it takes energy to make plastic, which is made from oil. It takes much less energy to take a used bottle, melt it and remould it into a new bottle. So recycling saves energy, most of which at the moment comes from burning fossil…

they form together to make the natural gas form

Natural gas can be made liquid by lowering the temperature to -162 degrees Celcius.

No because it took men to make it but the gas is natural. The stove was man-made

97 cubic feet of natural gas will make 1 liquid gallon.

ASTM D1785 does NOT approve that pipe for use with natural gas - PVC schedule 40 / 80 / 120 is approved for use of pressurized liquids ONLY. The ONLY plastic (type) pipe approved for Natural Gas above ground is "Polyethyline" pipe "PolyPipe" that uses special heat sealed fittings. (ANSI 58 / ASTM D2513)

They are made from two ingredients, petroleum and natural gas, which are then separated and converted into polymers. Polymers are filled with large molecules called monomers. Monomers are used in a variety of ways to make ethylene. When ethylene is processed it forms a molecular chains that create polyethylene.

You can't make natural gas, it is something that has been in the earth for millions of earth and comes from different occurances throughout time.

Natural gas. Natural gas takes millions of years to make, as do other fossil fuels of its kind. We cannot make more natural gas -- we can only find it. Corn can be grown, wood can be grown, and sunlight shines down constantly.

A natural gas-powered electric generator has a turbine engine hooked to an alternator. They run the engine and it turns the alternator to make power.

There are quite a few ways that natural gas can be used. Many people use natural gas to heat their homes.

It can be burned in gas cookers, or gas fires or used in power stations to fuel turbines which drive alternators to make electricity.

Natural gas is principally: methane ethane propane with some heavier hydrocarbons.

yes it can as if you breath it in it will make you unconscious

Well Gasoline s not a natural gas! It is a gas that could be used and you can not get that harmed from t but no t s not a natural gas!

the environmental advantages are that in 2100 that we may run out of natural gas.natural gas will be used in the future by powering cars and maybe make robots that run on natural gas.we haven't thought any ideas yet how to use natural gas but we will be using it as something important like use it as gasoline.

Eating beans works for me.

Mercaptan. Methane, which is the primary ingredient of natural gas, is odorless and colorless. The gas company adds a chemical called mercaptan, which gives natural gas a recognizable sulfur or rotten egg odor.

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It is not economical compared with other sources of energy. First of all molecular hydrogen (H2) only exists on earth in small quantities, so you have to make it from other sources. Most generally this would be made from natural gas (mostly CH4). But 'burning' natural gas to make hydrogen for fuel doesn't make any sense, as the energy density (per volume at standard temperature and pressure) of natural gas is better than hydrogen so…

Natural gas is not renewable because the earth has to compress dead sea animals to make gas and oil and that takes hundreds of billions years.

Depends on which plastic. Some will be affected by gasoline, some will not. I have plastic gas cans, and a tractor with a plastic gas tank.

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Natural gas is ignited and the heat is used to boiled water and generate steam. Steam is then forced through impeller turbines spinning them in turn spinning Generator Coils that Produce the electricity.

Natural gas is found deep below the earth's surface. Much of it is contained in shale rock. A modern technology called fracking (hydraulic fracturing), which uses high water pressure to break up the shale rock is used to recover natural gas. The natural gas is then refined and used. The United States has an abundance of natural gas that can be recovered. Natural gas is currently used to heat our homes and run home appliances…

Many gas stoves use natural gas. Many homes across the U.S. use natural gas to heat their homes in the winter. Propane can also be used with gas stoves.

No, because the steam will either melt the plastic colander or make the plastic colander release a gas that coul poisen you, the air, or the food you are steaming.

uses of natural gas:- 1.The energy in the natural gas can be harnessed to heat water 2.It is mainly used to light streetlamps 3.It is used as a fuel

The natural resources used in making chocolate cake include the heat generated to bake the cake which make use coal, natural gas to generate electricity. The ingredients in the cake are all renewable crops so they are not usually considered natural resources.

firstly make the waste plastic heated,when the temperature reached 250 ℃，then the waste plastic will become oil gas. secondly cool the oil gas in a condenser,the gas will be crude palm oil. lastly the crude palm oil can be further processed into desel oil or gasonline. it is a green way to protect the environment,of couse,it can also bring economics profits.

Natural gas is used for heating and generating electrical energy

No, coal is.