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hydrocarbons are carbon chains with hydrogen (and hydrogen only) bonded to them. So, most fuels are carbon chains with hydrogen bonded to them. Octane (gasoline) is C8H18
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Fuels such as gasoline are non polar and high in energy because they are largely composed of?
Hydrocarbons
When fuel is consumed most of the energy is changed into what?
Hydrocarbons
What kind of energy do you start with when burning fossil fuels?
Fossil fuels are a source of chemical energy. Chemically conbining the hydrocarbons in fossil fuels with air is combustion and primarily produces carbon dioxide and water. (There are many more details of the chemistry of the specific fossil fuels and many other results of their combustion besides the predominant gasses of water and carbon dioxide.)
How did the solar energy get stored in the fossil fuels?
When the trees and vegetation were growing they took in solar energy through photosynthesis. This energy was stored in the plants as hydrocarbons. It remains there as the plants, over millions of years, become fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas).
What fuels give out the most energy?
radioactive
What are hydrocarbons used for not as fuels?
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What substances does fuel usually contain?
Most fuels are based on hydrocarbons. When hydrocarbons are burned (oxidized), a significant amount of chemical energy is released in the form of heat.
Where do hydrocarbons in petrol and diesel come from?
fossil fuels
Why are hydrocarbons important to humans?
Hydrocarbons are used as fuels, solvents feedstock in organic chemistry.
Which is the BEST description of the use of hydrocarbons?
Simply Stated: Hydrocarbons are used as fuels.
Mixture of hydrocarbons that are used for fuels?
I am pretty sure the answer is hydrocarbons.
Energy- rich chemical compounds that contains carbon and hydrogen atoms are callled?
In organic chemistry, those compounds are called hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbons can be found in the form of gases, liquids, waxes, and polymers.
Where are fossil fuels and minerals found?
The Earth's Lithosphere is the Crust and Upper Mantle. Fossil Fuels or Minerals Fuels are fossle source fuels, that is, carbon or hydrocarbons that are found on the earth's crust
What elements are found in gasoline?
Gasoline and fossil fuels are hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbons are composed of the hydrogen (H), oxygen (O) and carbon (C). MTBE and ethanol components to gasoline are also hydrocarbons.
Why gas and liquid hydrocarbons are important?
They are used as fuels and raw materials in the petrochemistry.
Hydrocarbons may be emitted as a result of burning fuels because of?
imcomplete combustion
When fossil fuels are burned carbon dioxide and water are produced what elements must be contained in fossils fuels?
hydrocarbons( carbon and hydrogen)
