Crude oil and fractional distillation, alkanes and alkenes, alcohols and carboxylic acids, and polymers.
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds, many from crude oil.
Crude oil
A mixture separated by fractional distillation — fractions condense at different heights as the temperature falls up the column (e.g. refinery gases, petrol, kerosene, diesel, bitumen).
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