Crude Oil Flashcards

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What is a hydrocarbon?

A compound that contains carbon and hydrogen only.

What is crude oil?

A complex mixture of hydrocarbons.
It is a finite resource.

True or false? Crude oil is a mixture of the elements hydrogen and carbon.

False. Crude oil is a mixture of compounds (hydrocarbons), not of elements.

Apart from fuels, what is crude oil an important source of?

Feedstock for the petrochemical industry.

True or false? In crude oil the carbon atoms are arranged in chains or in rings.

True. Most molecules are chains, but some contain rings of carbon atoms.

Most of the hydrocarbons in crude oil and its fractions belong to which homologous series?

The alkanes.