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Crude oil, hydrocarbons and alkanes
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- 1What is crude oila finite resource found in rocks, it is the remains of ancient biomass that was buried in mud
- 2what is crude oil made ofa mixture of a very large number of compounds, mostly hydrocarbons - molecules made of only hydrogen and carbon
- 3What type of hydrocarbons are usually found in crude oilAlkanes - the general formula for a series of alkanes is CnH2n+2
- 4What are the names of some alkanesmethane - CH₄
ethane - C₂H₆
propane - C3H8
butane - C₄H₁₀
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