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Fossil fuels contain potential chemical energy, which is released by combination with oxygen. Uranium contains potential energy which can be released by splitting the atomic nucleus, this results in a loss of mass which produces a burst of energy through the relation E = mc2. This energy drives the fission fragments apart, they are then slowed by the surrounding uranium and this produces heat or thermal energy.
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How is solar energy trapped into fuels?
Plants use the energy from sunlight to convert Carbon dioxide and Water into sugars which they then store as starch. When plants die some of them are preserved over a long period of time as fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas. These fossil fuels still contain the stored sunlight energy which was originally trapped by the plants millions of years ago.
What is the name for the type of energy formed in fossil fuels?
Fossil fuels are stores of chemical energy. The chemicals are various hydrocarbons. The original source of the energy locked in these chemicals is Sunlight. The fuel formed from the remains of plankton that were buried beneath the Earth millions of years ago. Geothermal processes converted the remains of living creatures to the hydrocarbons that we now call fossil fuels. Fossils do not make energy. Fossils are usually from larger animals and plants, but the term fossil fuel is one of common usage.
What energy transformations are in a crane?
It is the movement of Electrical to Mechanical energy(kinetic)
What is the stored energy of plants called?
Sun is the main source of energy on earth,plants use this reactant energy & change into chemical energy by photosynthesis & store it in ATP.
What type of energy is stored in batteries and food?
batteries store chemical energy
Is kinetic energy stored by fossil fuels?
No. Fossil fuels store chemical energy. It is this chemical energy we tap by using them for fuels.
Does fossil fuels such as coal store chemical kinetic energy?
Fossil fuels such as coal store chemical kinetic energy?
Fossil fuels store energy from the sun as?
Chemical Energy.
What type of energy is present in fossil fuels?
they store chemical energy
What kind of energy does gasoline and other fuels store?
chemical energy
How energy is controlled by biogas?
It isn't. Fuels such as biogas store energy, they don't control it.
What is the relationship between non-renewable resource and chemical energy?
Nonrenewable fossil fuels, like oil and coal, store a lot chemical energy in the bonds between its molecules. When these fossil fuels are burned, the chemical energy is released.
How do plants and animals store energy found in fossil fuels?
Plants and animals both store energy found in fossil fuels by going threw a system call cell fertilization thru out their life.
What substances are fuels made of?
Fuels are made of Carbon and Hydrogen bound together as chemicals. The bonds in these chemicals store energy which is released when the fuels are burned in Oxygen.
How do fossil fuels store energy?
Fossil fuels contain the chemical energy that plants and algae obtained from sunlight and then stored in sugars. Just as energy chemical energy is stored in sugars, chemical energy is stored in fossil fuels. All it takes to release it is enough heat and oxygen to cause the fuel to burn.
What is a feul?
Fuels are any materials that store potential energy in forms that can be practicably released and used for work or as heat energy.
What is the relationship between nonrenewable resource chemical energy?
Nonrenewable fossil fuels, like oil and coal, store a lot chemical energy in the bonds between its molecules. When these fossil fuels are burned, the chemical energy is released.
