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Fractional distillation

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In this video, Fran Scott explains fractional distillation - the separation of crude oil into fractions. Crude oil is a finite resource; petrol and other fuels are produced from it using fractional distillation. ‘Cracking’ is used to convert long alkanes into shorter, more useful hydrocarbons.

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