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Fractional distillation is useful for separating a mixture of substances with minor differences in boiling points. The minor difference means the gap between the boiling points should be less than 25 Kelvin.It is used for the distillation of crude oil in the petroleum industry thereby resulting in the manufacturing of gasoline, lubricating oil, diesel, and plastics.What is Petroleum Refining?Petroleum refining is defined as the process of converting crude oil into useful products. The process involves separation, conversion, and treatment. Crude oil is heated in a furnace so that hydrocarbons can be separated by fractional distillation since there is not much ... Read More

CNG is nothing but Compressed Natural Gas. It is made by compressing natural gas, to less than 1 percent of the volume, it occupies at Standard Atmospheric pressure. Natural gas is mainly composed of Methane.CNG is formed of Natural Gas, as we discussed earlier and the later is formed by the decay of organic matter. Now, when hydrogen is burnt, it releases energy and the only product left as a residue is a water. Since water is clean and not a pollutant, CNG is a clean and safe energy source with a plethora of commercial applications such as electricity generation, ... Read More

Before knowing how to separate crude oil, we must know what actually is crude oil composed of. It is a mixture of comparatively volatile liquid hydrocarbons, though it even contains some nitrogen, sulfur, and oxygen. It occurs underground and can contain natural gas, kept in solution by the pressure at varying depths.SeparationSeparating the mixture of substances in crude oil into fractions by evaporation and condensation is called fractional distillation. There may be light distillates like Naptha and middle distillates like petrol, Tar, oil, and kerosene. In the end, residues such as heavy fuel oil, waxes, grease, or asphalt are obtained.Steps ... Read More

Clean water is very necessary not only for drinking purpose but also for other purposes like cleaning utensils, washing clothes, etc.Ways to Clean WaterBoiling: Boiling is the easiest and by far, a quite trusted method of purifying water. But one must note that we cannot get rid of all Impurities through boiling. So, if the fluoride content is too high, boil it, but do not use it for drinking purpose. But use for other purposes like washing dark colored clothes, washing hair etc.Add 'Lal Dawai': Lal Dawai is also called potassium permanganate. Its addition to water purifies it by the ... Read More

Methanol is a clean burning drop in fuel and can replace both petrol, and diesel in transportation and LPG, wood, kerosene in cooking fuel.Why Is Methanol Essential?To sustain our energy needs in the future, alternative forms of energy is the only way out. Methanol will not just mitigate the environmental hazards, but also will help households reduce their fuel costs, and thus make more savings.How Would It Be Capitalised?Assam Petrochemicals Ltd to roll out country’s first methanol-based cooking fuel, which will be 30% cheaper than the conventional LPG fuel. It’s cleaner, greener and easily transportable. After China and Israel already ... Read More

Soap making at home is very interesting as one can go about adding and mixing many ingredients as per one’s own choice and availability of the ingredients. While some people love to experiment, others may wish to play safe. So, let us look at some of the ways in which one can make soap at home.The Most Easiest WayThe most fundamental and easiest of all the ways is using bits of leftovers of soap, to make a new one. Take the leftovers of soaps used at home, and melt them. The procedure to melt is simple. Take a pan and ... Read More

The Periodic table is a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements according to the increasing order of their atomic number. These chemical elements when arranged in such order, exhibit similar properties with elements that belong to the same group, where such a recurring pattern is called Periodic Law.An English chemist named John Newlands, who studied the 56 elements and their characteristics, discovered till then in 1863, had divided them into 11 groups and formed this Periodic table.The Contribution of ScientistsIn 1869, the Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev started developing the periodic table by placing the chemical elements in a table in ... Read More

The International System of Units (SI) says Litre or Liter is an accepted metric system used to measure volume equal to 1000 cubic centimeters or 1/1000 cubic meter.There is no difference between liter or litre. Litre is used by all English speaking countries influenced by Europe or British English and Liter is preferred by American English.

An alkaloid is a group of organic compounds of a plant origin they occur naturally and are chemical compounds which contain Basic nitrogen atoms alkaloids are produced by a large variety of both plants and animals or organisms like fungi and Bacteria Dr.Meissner was the first who coined the term who coined the term alkaloid And ascertained the alkaline nature of Solanaceae plants.Alkaloids are a class of basic nitrogen compounds which are occurring naturally. They can be both plant and animal origin. They have powerful physiological action on humans and can be easily identified in the drug form as their ... Read More

Things which are combustible can be set on fire. The eco-friendly combustible materials like wood, paper, coal etc have a high carbon content in them. The color of carbon is black, it is proven by checking the coal which has the highest content of carbon and looks black.So, when a material is burnt, it becomes black, due to the carbon content in it...