Fossil fuels come from the decaying of dead organisms on the Earth. After millions of years, the decomposed material is covered in earth and is then turned into organic material which forms fossil fuel. Look here for more information: http:...
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Crude oil is formed from the remains of prehistoric plankton and algae that settled to the bottom of a body of water in an oxygen deprived environment. Coal was formed from plant matter on the surface of the earth that was buried under mud ...
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Where Fossil Fuels Come From ... There are three major forms of fossil fuels: coal, oil and natural gas. All three were formed many hundreds of millions of years ago before the time of the dinosaurs - hence the name fossil fuels. The age they were formed is called the Carboniferous Period.
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I have a question for your friends, "Where do they think fuels come from?"; Fossil fuels (oil, natural gas and coal - that's why they're called fossil fuels) were formed from vegetation and yes, dinosaurs, deposited during the Carboniferous through the Permian eras which extended 380 to 245 million years ago.
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Where Do Fossil Fuels Come from?. Life on Earth is based on carbon-based organisms. Plants, animals, human beings, we all share the element in more or less complex hydrocarbon compounds that form the basis of life on our planet.... ... eHow Article: Where Do Fossil Fuels Come from?
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There are three major forms of fossil fuels: coal, oil and natural gas. All three were formed many hundreds millions of years ago, before and during the time of the dinosaurs -- hence the name fossil fuels. ... Fossil fuels are made up of decomposed plant and animal matter. Plants change energy they receive from the sun...
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The main point of this is that all of these fossil fuels are made of hydrocarbons. It may come as a surprise that these two elements, hydrogen and carbon, can create many, many different compounds with unique characteristics.
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In the same way that we burn wood to release energy that trees capture from the sun, we burn fossil fuels to release the energy that ancient plants captured from the sun. We can think of this energy as having been deposited in a natural solar power bank over millions of years.
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