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Petrol is a mixture of Hydrocarbons (obtained from crude oil) through the process of fractional distillation. Fractional distillation basically involves heating a mixture at different temperatures to obtain individual compounds.
Crude oil is not a compound, it is arbitrary mixture that contains myriad hydrocarbons. The shorter hydrocarbons will boil at the lowest temperature (shorter chain = less energy) and the longer the hydrocarbon chain gets (a general measure of the carbons in the chain) the more energy it takes to boil it.
Petrol generally contains between 6 and 12 carbon chain length hydrocarbons. I can't give specific names because hydrocarbons comes in saturated, unsaturated, cyclic, aromatic, xylene forms. Read up on some Organic Chemistry to get a brief overview of these. Petrol can contain carbon chain lengths of 6 and 12 that could be anyone of those hydrocarbons mentioned above. Each has its own properties that affect the properties of petrol in general, mainly affecting energy density of the fuel. Due to double bonds, triple bonds, cyclic structures etc.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoPetrol contains hydrocarbons ( chemicals consistin of hydrogen and carbon mainly) .
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Ramar petrol collapsed after the owner was arrested for buying organic chemicals from the market and selling it as herbal fuel by mixing the chemicals with additives.
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At its present rate of use it is not.
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Neither; it's a mixture of chemicals.
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