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Petroleum is a thick, flammable, yellow/black mixture of gaseous, liquid, and solid hydrocarbons that occurs naturally beneath the earth's surface. It can be separated into natural gas, gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, fuel and lubricating oils, paraffin and asphalt.

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