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Petroleum is a mixture of various useful constituents and cannot be used directly,so to use it we have to seperate petroleum by a method called fractional distillation of petroleum.

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This is possible because crude oil has components with different boiling points.

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The scope of separation is to obtain many useful fractions.

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Frectional distillation is used to separe components of crude oil.

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