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Fossil fuels are fuels formed by natural resources such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms.

A natural resources such as coal, oil, and natural gas containing hydrocarbon. They have been formed on earth for millions of years by decayed organisms.

when its burned they produce carbon dioxide.

There are different types of fossil fuels which they are: coal, petroleum, wood, oil, natural gases, and diesel, wind, etc

Coal is made up of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and varying amounts of sulphur. Coal was formed as massive amounts of vegetation died and fell into the swamp-like surfaces that existed in the heavily vegetated Earth of the Carboniferous Period. Huge mats of waterlogged plant material were formed that resisted decay.

Organic plant matter at various stages of decay form peat, which under certain pressure and heat conditions experience slow rates of bacterial decay and eventually goes on to form coal. As peat is buried by sediment and becomes compressed, it slowly releases water and other elements contained within it, resulting in an increasingly compact and carbon rich substance. The natural process converting plant matter to peat may go through different stages, first forming lignite(soft brown coal with moisture 45%), then sub bituminous coal(properties of lignite, fuel for steam electric power generation), bituminous coal(coal is a soft, dense, black coal with moisture less than 20%) and eventually anthracite coal(low in sulphur and high in carbon. It is the highest rank of coal. moisture content generally is less than 15 %). .

Coal is grounded up and mixed with water to make slurry. It is then pumped many miles through pipelines. At the other end, the coal is used to fuel power plants and other factories.

Oil is formed from the remains of animals and plants (diatoms) that lived millions of years ago in a marine (water) environment before the dinosaurs. Over millions of years, the remains of these animals and plants were covered by layers of sand and silt. Diatoms work like plants, converting sunlight to stored energy.

Oil is used as a fossil fuel to help create diesel fuel. It is used to make crayons, dish washing , heating houses, and fueling the cars , we use fossil fuel for trucks, make product, and motorcycle and other thing.

Formation occurs from hydrocarbon pyrolysis(decomposition), in a variety of mostly endothermic reactions at high temperature and/or pressure. Its Lighter than air, mostly made up of methane, usually found near underground petroleum. Natural gas is colorless, odorless, and tasteless.

Natural gas is used with ignition systems. Gas lit stoves, grills, etc.

Machines called "digesters" are used today to turn materials such as: plants, and animal waste into natural gas. This process replaces waiting for millions of years for the gas to form naturally.

Refineries is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, and liquefied petroleum gas. Refineries are important to the production of fossil fuels, because the fossil fuels undergo steps to help to purify the substances or something. They are important because oil refinery is a industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into useful petroleum products.

10.8 million gallons of Crude oil were spilled by hitting the Prince William reef. Clean up of the incident was done by using dispersant, a surfactant and solvent mixture. 100,000 to as many as 250,000 seabirds, at least 2,800 sea otters,12 river otters, 300 harbor seals, 247 bald eagles, and 22 orcas, as well as the destruction of billions of salmon and herring eggs were all reported to have died.

In September 2009, the oil rig drilled the deepest oil well in history at a vertical depth of 35,050. feet 210,000 US gallons to 4,200,000 gallons of crude oil were spilled per day of the disaster. Nine rig crew on the rig floor and two engineers died during the explosion. a fail-safe device fitted at source of the well, did not automatically cut-off the oil flow as intended when the explosion occurred.

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