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Natural Gas
W hat it is  Description: Pie Chart of Natural Gases use Image copyright: http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/non-renewable/naturalgas.html |
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Natural Gas was formed by tiny sea plants and animals that have died and were buried on the ocean floor. Over time, those remains were covered with silt and sand. Millions of years later the remains got buried lower, and lower. Because of the enormous heat and pressure they turned into oil and gas. To get to those oils and gases, we now drill down through the rock, sand and silt that contain it. Paints, plastics, antifreeze, and explosives are essential raw material for many common products. Global claimant is connected to natural gas to some scientists because of the increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Natural gas is a nonrenewable gas. Cubic feet or volume is used to measure natural gas, or in British thermal units is in heat content. One example for British thermal units, or BTU, is that a candy bar contains about 1000 Mcf. M=1000. Natural gas is sometimes stored as a liquid. It gets to this form by being chilled to very cold temperatures, usually -260 degrees Fahrenheit. When in liquid form it only takes up about 1/1000th of the space as it would as a gas, there for it can be loaded into tankers and shipped across oceans to deliver it to other countries.
Fun Facts: • Natural gas is colorless and odorless. Utility workers sometimes add the smell of rotten eggs to help make it easier to notice. • There are more than one million miles of underground gas pipelines across the United States. • In 200 BC., people in China used natural gas to make salt. |
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