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What physical property is used to separate crude oil into fractions?
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Difference in the boiling points among different byproducts of crude oil is used to separate out each component from a mixture. Fractional distillation is used to carry out this process. This method can also be used to purify water and acetone from a mixture.
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Is the fractionation of crude oil a physical change?
It is actually a chemical change. Known as Catalytic Cracking, it takes crude oil apart into the different components, and cannot be put back together again.
What is the size of a barrel of crude oil?
A barrel of crude oil is 159 Litres.
What is the shape of crude oil?
Crude oil is a liquid, so it takes the shape of whatever container it is in.
What is the difference between sweet and sour crude?
Sour crude is high in sulfur. Sweet crude is low in sulfur. Petroleum is considered "sweet" if it contains less than 0.5% sulphur. Sour crude oil has >0.5% sulphur. Sweet crude oil also contains small amounts of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and carbon dioxide (CO2).
Is gasoline renewable or nonrenewable and why?
Nonrenewable because you cannot reuse it once used.
Which physical property makes it possible to separate components of crude oil by means of distillation?
boiling point
How does naphtha separate from the other fractions of crude oil?
fractional distillation
What is a fraction in crude oil?
Crude oil is a mixture of various chemicals. If you distill crude oil you can separate it into components, which are also known as fractions.
Why is a thermometer needed when separating crude oil?
Because different fractions separate at different temperatures.
What is used to separate different fractions in crude oil?
Typically they are separated in a fractional distillation tower.
Why the chemicals in crude oil separate out in a particular order?
Crude oil is made out of hydro-carbons which causes the oil to separate out in a particular oil. The different fractions of carbons work independently from each other.
Can you separate oil?
Crude oil is readily separated into fractions one of which is gasoline. Lubricating oil is much more difficult.
How does fractional distillation separate Crude oil into fractions?
First of all you have to bend down and suck it :). I Hope It Helped. TROLL.
What is the method used to separate fractions of crude oil?
Fractional Distillation. Performed in a fractionating column. Heat is applied to the crude oil and it vaporises. Fractions with different boiling points rise to specific heights within the fractionating column, where they are condensed and extracted.
What is fractional distillation uses?
Used to separate various fractions (parts) of crude oil eg gas, petrol, kerosene,diesel etc.It is also used in a distillery to separate alcohol from water
Can physical method be used to separate molecules in crude oil?
Yes. Oil is a mixture so physical methods are appropriate. Fractional distillation is the physical process used in oil refineries to separate the oil into different, saleable parts.
How is crude oil split into its fractions?
by eating
