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Why is crude oil useful?

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Crude oil refinery?

Purifies the crude oil coming in to be useful for Gasoline, Diesel, etc.


Why do you need crude oil?

crude oil is needed because it is useful to use in home etc..........


What is the meaning of refinery of crude oil?

A crude oil refinery is a factory. The factory takes the crude oil, and turns it into useful products, like gasoline.


Where is crude oil converted into useful products?

at the refinery


Is Crude oil is most useful when it first comes out of the ground?

false


Is crude oil compound or mixture?

Crude oil is a mixture of compounds called hydrocarbons. Many useful materials can be produced from crude oil. It can be separated into different fractions using fractional distillation, and some of these can be used as fuels. Unfortunately, there are environmental consequences when fossil fuels such as crude oil and its products are used.


What is the factory called when it makes crude oil into useful products?

This is typically called a refinery.


Why are fractional distilation useful?

This process helped us to separate ex-specially for crude oil.


What useful things do you get from crude oil?

Loads: Plastics Rubber Perfumes and a load of other rubbish


How crude oil is separated into useful fraction?

Crude oil is separated into different substances with similar boiling points. The substances in crude oil can be separated using fractional distillation. The crude oil is evaporated and its vapours are allowed to condense at different temperatures in the fractionating column. Each fraction contains hydrocarbon molecules with a similar number of carbon atoms


Why is crude oil separated by fractional distillation?

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.


What is Nigeria's position in the world in producing crude oil?

Crude oil is crude..