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Petroleum, or crude oil, is a naturally occurring flammable liquid that consists of complex chains and bonds of hydrocarbons with varying molecular weights. It also contains other organic compounds that are found in geologic formations beneath the earth's surface.
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What are the roles of chemistry in petroleum refining?
The majority of processes involved in petroleum refining are chemical changes.
What is petroleum condensates in petroleum chemistry?
Hydrocarbons, usually produced with natural gas, which are liquid at normal pressure and temperature.
What are the two main sources of alkanes?
Petroleum. For details about the chemistry you might wish to consult the benzene page on wikipedia.
Is an attempt by an oil company scientist to design a better gasoline an example of organic chemistry?
The design of gasoline and fuels are an interdisciplinary subject matter. Gasoline is a hydrocarbon, and thus an organic by definition. Chemical and Petroleum Engineering involve organic chemistry knowledge and applications.
What branch of chemistry are amount of heat composition of sample noble gases periodic table parts of the cell petroleum?
Organic chem. It involves carbon (and hydrogen) elements
What are the roles of chemistry in petroleum refining?
The majority of processes involved in petroleum refining are chemical changes.
Why is chemistry important in petroleum industry?
Petroleum industry is totally based on chemical equations, procedures, theories.
What has the author A E Dunstan written?
A. E. Dunstan has written: 'The science of petroleum' -- subject(s): Petroleum engineering, Petroleum industry and trade 'Chemistry and the petroleum industry' -- subject(s): Petroleum
Is silicone a petroleum product?
Silicone is not a product of petro-chemistry.
What is petroleum condensates in petroleum chemistry?
Hydrocarbons, usually produced with natural gas, which are liquid at normal pressure and temperature.
What is a feeds stock as related to petroleum chemistry?
Feedstock is the stuff you start with... probably crude oil for petroleum chemistry, though you might begin with a particular fraction of the oil instead of crude.
What is ppm in petroleum?
In chemistry, ppm means 'parts per million'
What has the author Semen Romanovich Sergienko written?
Semen Romanovich Sergienko has written: 'High-molecular compounds in petroleum' -- subject(s): Chemistry, Organic, Organic Chemistry, Petroleum 'Ocherki o nauke i uchenykh' -- subject(s): Hydrocarbons, Chemists, History, Chemistry, Biography, Research
What oil is plastic made from?
The feedstock for polymers chemistry may be petroleum, methane gas, coal, plants.
What chemistry revolutionizing things did Dmitri Mendeleev do besides make the periodic table and law?
Mendeleev worked also in spectroscopy, ethanol-water system, capillarity, petroleum chemistry.
What is the importance of chemistry in the field of education?
How do you educate doctors without chemistry? How do you educate researchers in plastics industries, or petroleum, or metallurgy, or ... etc. Added: As someone who has taken three years of undergraduate chemistry ( though much is forgotten! ) I can tell you that chemistry is education; the subject teaches you how to think, not what to think.
How do you create petroleum based products?
The entire science of chemistry (which requires years of study to learn) is brought to bear upon the problem of creating petroleum based products, so there is no simple technique that can be described for you. There are thousands of petroleum based products and thousands of different techniques used to create them.
