Petroleum and its refining - Chemistry

This is a chemistry video for Grade 89-10 students that talks about the elaborate process of refining of petroleum in industry.

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[Camilo Garcia Benitez]

Thank you

[elearnin]

We are glad you liked it :)

[lightmanga]

dang, if it was any more monotoned, i might have just clicked away

[ctranrojasmm]

"Sulphur" is spelled Sulfur.

[Booker DeWitt]

And you sir, are ignorant to sarcasm. Have a nice day!

[paddu sharma]

yeah you are a fool

[Booker DeWitt]

So many smart people here. I feel like the son of Homer Simpson and Snooky :(

[Cabhan Listis]

Okay. Thank you!

[SeleniumAndroid]

Making something radioactive is as simple as adding neutrons. Fusion powers the sun, so it's obviously possible, but it's hard to keep bajillion-degree plasma contained without it transferring heat to the casing and thus away from helping further the reaction. H-bombs, for example, are a small fusion reactor wherein the repelling positive charges are overcome not with heat but from the pressure of two uranium bombs on either side of it (they squish the protons together). Difficult, but possible.

[Cabhan Listis]

Are there actual ways to do those things?

[SeleniumAndroid]

To separate pieces of nuclei, you have to make them radioactive. To fuse nuclei together, you have to make the material into plasma, heat it so that the nuclei's vibration is strong enough to overcome the repelling magnetic forces made by the protons in each nucleus, and then wait for them to hit each other. It's rather difficult, and it's not very easy to do complex things (the only element that's profitable to turn into gold IIRC is mercury, which is one particle larger. No instant money yet).