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Petrol is made by heating crude oil and letting hydrocarbon chains condense at different "fractions" in the cooling tank.... at the bottom of the tank you have long hydrocarbons like viscous butane and nearer the top you have petrol etc. Petrol is made by cracking crude oil.

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