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What is the chemical composition of oil? |
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A complex mixture containing hundreds of different chemical compounds; these compounds are structually similar to each other |
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What kind of compound is oil? |
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What are hydrocarbons composed of? |
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What are some elements found in oil? |
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hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen (0%-.5%), sulfur (0% - 6%), oxygen (0% - 3.5%) and some metals in trace amounts |
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What are the three types of components in the chemical composition of oil? |
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Paraffin, Cycloparaffin, and aromatic groups |
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In oil chemistry, what are the bonds that do not connect two carbon atoms attached to? |
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Draw Paraffin, Cycloparaffin, and Aromatic Chemical Composition |
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What are the 3 combinations of hydrocarbons? |
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1. Paraffin hydrocarbons 2. Cycloparaffin hydrocarbons 3. Aromatic hydrocarbons |
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What are paraffin hydrocarbons? |
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contains molecules composed only of paraffin groups |
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What are cycloparaffin hydrocarbons? |
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Contains molecules composed of one or more cycloparaffin groups that may or may not be attached to paraffin groups |
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What are aromatic hydrocarbons? |
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Contains molecules composed of one or more aromatic groups that may or may not be attached to cycloparaffin or paraffin groups |
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any of a series of saturated alicyclic hydrocarbons of the general formula CH, having a closed chain of three or more carbon atoms |
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Are there large or small numbers of hydrocarbons in oil? |
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Why is the task of separating and identifying the various constituents quite difficult? |
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Since there are a large number of hydrocarbons. |
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For the chemical composition, what was selected as being representative of US petroleum? |
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A mid-content crude oil from Ponca City, OK |
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After using the best separation and identification techniques, how many hydrocarbons have been isolated from the sample and identified? |
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More than one hundred individual hydrocarbons |
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Of the 175 hydrocarbons isolated, how many are in each group? |
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70 - paraffins 48 - cycloparaffins 57 - aromatics |
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Of the compounds that occur in greatest abundance, what groups are they in? |
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All are parafins except for one cycloparaffin and one aromatic |
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What are the most abundant types of hydrocarbons found in oil? |
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What are the compounds that occur in greatest abundance in oil? |
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1. heptane 2. octane 3. hexane 4. nonane 5. decane 6. methylcyclohexane 7. undecane 8. dodecane 9. tridecane 10. 1 methyl 3 isopropyllbenzene 11. tetradecane |
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The proportions in which the various molecules occur in oil varies considerably depending on what? |
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What do the differences in the percentage of the various hydrocarbons influence? |
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What is the energy content in typical molecules found in gasoline? |
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43 to 47 KJ/gram (Not much different from candlewax or candybars) |
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What colors can hydrocarbons be? |
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pitch black, amber, brown, or green |
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What can hydrocarbons smell like? |
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Some smell sweet or like turpentine while others have unpleasant odors usually caused by the presence of sulfur containing compounds |
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7 carbons & other hydrogens |
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8 hydrocarbons and hydrogens |
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