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[pə-trṓlē-əm]
(n.)A thick, flammable, yellow-to-black mixture of gaseous, liquid, and solid hydrocarbons that occurs naturally beneath the earth's surface, can be separated into fractions including natural gas, gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, fuel and lubricating oils, paraffin wax, and asphalt and is used as raw…
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Petroleum (L. petroleum , from Greek πετρέλαιον , lit. "rock oil" ) or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid found in rock formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixtu...
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Heat and pressure from these layers helped the remains turn into what we today call crude oil. The word "petroleum" means "rock oil" or "oil from the earth."
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The weight of the rock and heat from the earth turned them into petroleum. Petroleum is called a fossil ... Petroleum is a fossil fuel. Petroleum is nonrenewable. PAGE 20 Elementary Energy Infobook 2008 THE NEED PROJECT PO BOX 10101 MANASSAS, VA 20108 1-800-875-5029 Petroleum is buried underground in tiny pockets in rocks.
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Informational look at what petroleum is and is used for. ... Bitumen, and doubtless petroleum also, was known from the earliest ages, being the "pitch" which Noah used in building the Ark, and the "slime" used for mortar in the Tower of Babel, being dug from pits in the Valley of Sodom, precisely as is done in the same region...
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