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Oil is called a fossil fuel because it is made from animals which died and were cemented in mud and heat many years ago. They turned into oil and a type of gas called methane thousands of years later. They are not actually fossils but the equivalent of them because they have been preserved by the mud and eventually turned into oil, a type of fuel.
fossil fuels are exhaustible, available in limited quantity, takes a long time to replenish & is found under the earth.
Since crude oil satisfies all these conditions, it is a fossil fuel.
No, there are no fossils in oil. Fossil fuel (coal, oil and natural gas) gets its name because it has taken an extremely long time to develop, 300 million years, the same time that fossils take. But the two are quite different.
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More accurately, they are fossils of organic detritus. Coal is fossil peat. Crude oil is similarly a fossil of decay products from dead organisms, and most oil deposits are actually younger than 300M yrs, often about 150M years.
Natural gas derives from these substances breaking down: it is mainly methane, also being produced nowadays by decaying farmyard manure, cows belching, and household waste in land-fill tips.
Petrol comes from oil. Oil is a fossil fuel. A fossil fuel is formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms, and is hundreds of millions of years old.
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Why does using biodiesel make your supplies of crude oil last longer?
If you are using bio fuel you are not using fossil fuel. Crude oil is a fossil fuel
Is pentane a fossil fuel?
Pentane is an alkane which has been removed from crude oil by fractional distillation and it's crude oil that's the fossil fuel.
Is crude oil fossil fuel?
Oils wells dig up fossil fuels. The fuel that they bring up is raw, unrefined, and full of gunk. It's known as crude oil. So yes, crude oil is a fossil fuel. Correct me if I'm wrong.
What is a nonrenewable black fossil fuel?
Crude oil.
What type of fuel is crude oil?
fossil fuek
What fossil fuel is pumped from wells?
Crude Oil.
Why crude oil iscalled fossil fuel?
Crude oil is a fossil fuel because. It was made from the dead bodies of microscope plant and animals that once lived in the sea
Is kerosene a fossil fuel?
It is a by-product of crude oil, therefore yes.
Why is crude oil a fossil fuel?
Crude oil, coal and are fossil fuels. They were formed over millions of years. Crude oil and gas were formed from dead marine organisms
How are fossil fuels qatar's main source of income?
Crude oil was based on the decomposition of ancient forests for the most part. Oil is called a fossil fuel and Qatar uses crude oil as a major source of income.
Is coal not a fossil fuel?
Coal is a fossil fuel. The major fossil fuels are natural gas, crude oil and coal.
This type of fossil fuel can be simplified to gasoline to fuel cars?
Crude oil.
