Tag: rocks and minerals

Coke obtained by destructive distillation of coal is not used for drinking purposes. But it is largely used as a reducing agent in the extraction of metals from their ores.

Among all, Kerosene have highest calorific value, hence it is used as aviation fuel in jet aeroplane.

Paraffin wax is a white or colorless soft solid derived from petroleum, coal, or oil shale, and it is considered a solid form of petroleum product.

Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.

Natural gas mainly contains methane which on heating with water produces carbon monoxide and hydrogen. 

Petroleum is formed from dead organic matter. When a large amount of dead organism, usually zooplankton and algae are buried underneath sedimentary rock and subjected to intense heat and pressure after such a process the molecule turn into petroleum.Zooplankton is organism found in ocean and seas. This organism can't be found on land, on the rock, on the plant. So option "C "is the right answer.

The petroleum product used as fuel for stoves, lamps and jet aircraft is kerosene.

On burning natural gas it does not produce harmful gases, hence it is less polluting fuel.

Under Euro III emission standards, the sulfur content limit for petrol was set at 150 ppm and for diesel at 350 ppm.

Petrol, is the odd one out. Since, the coal, charcoal, firewood are solid natural resources that are obtained from nature, while petrol is liquid fuel.