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GCSE Chemistry · key term
The industry that uses chemicals obtained from crude oil and natural gas to manufacture other chemicals and materials.
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Specification 8.2 · Paper 2
The chemical industry that uses substances obtained from crude oil or natural gas to manufacture useful products.
Revise: Crude OilCrude oil is also a feedstock for the petrochemical industry. A feedstock is a starting material used to manufacture other substances rather than simply being burned. Chemicals obtained from crude oil can be used to make products such as polymers, solvents, detergents and lubricants.
Specification C6.2m, C6.2n · Paper 2 (Foundation), Paper 4 (Higher)
The industry that uses substances obtained from crude oil to make chemicals and materials.
Revise: Crude Oil ImportanceThe petrochemical industry uses materials obtained from crude oil as starting points for chemical products, rather than simply burning all the oil as fuel. For example, processing crude oil can provide alkenes such as ethene. Ethene can then be used to make the polymer polyethene, a material used in plastic products.
Paper 1 (Foundation), Paper 2 (Foundation), Paper 3 (Higher), Paper 4 (Higher)
The industry that uses chemicals derived from crude oil to make other chemical products.
Revise: Crude oil as a sourceSome hydrocarbons obtained from crude oil are used as fuels. They are burned to release energy. But crude oil is also a feedstock for the petrochemical industry: it supplies raw materials that are changed by chemical reactions into other substances.
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