Choose the incorrect statement among the following.
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Natural gas is used as a starting material for the manufacture of a number of chemicals and fertilizers.
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Over millions of years, the presence of air, high temperature, and low pressure transformed the dead organisms into petroleum.
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Naphthalene balls used to repel moths and other insects the from coal tar.
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Minerals, coal, petroleum, natural gas, etc. are exhaustible natural resources.
Petroleum is a fossil fuel that was formed from the remains of ancient marine organisms.
Millions of years ago, algae and plants lived in shallow seas. After dying and sinking to the seafloor, the organic material mixed with other sediments and was buried. Over millions of years under high pressure and high temperature, the remains of these organisms transformed into what we know today as fossil fuels. Coal, natural gas, and petroleum are all fossil fuels that formed under similar conditions.
Today, petroleum is found in vast underground reservoirs where ancient seas were located.