NONRENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES VOCAB
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- Crude oil / petroleum
- a highly flammable liquid formed by the decayed remains of ancient organisms
- Hydrocarbon
- an organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen
- Refining
- the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)
- Fractional distillation
- separating a solution into its components by using their boiling points
- Strip mining
- the mining of ore or coal from an open mine
- Reclamation
- the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation
- Black lung
- lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust
- Subsidence
- the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it
- Synthetic fuel (Synfuel)
- Manufactured by the Germans from coal late in WWII, particularly after the loss of other natural sources of petroleum. Expensive to make, but Germany was desperate for fuel and had large supplies of coal.
- Slurry
- a mixture of raw starch and cold liquid used for thickening.
- Natural gas
- a fossil fuel in the gaseous state
- Oil shales
- are fine grained sedimentary rock rich in solid organic material called kerogen
- Tar sands
- rock or sand layers that contain oil