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How does petrol come from crude oil?

Updated: 9/14/2023
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DeWildt07

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It is obtained by fractional distillation, it is a tall enclosed chamber with vents at specific heights from where vapor is extracted to another chamber to liquify it. Its based on the property of specific gravity, when different gases are mixed, the heavier ones stay put near the bottom, thus on boiling crude oil in a tall vessel and determining the height where it stays in the vertical part we can extract the vapours from that section to cool them and we get gas - the term used for petrol. Additionally it can also be obtained by destructive distillation/cracking

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