Petrochemical industry
What Petrochemical industry means in Chemistry GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Produces many useful materials on which modern life depends, such as solvents, lubricants, polymers and detergents.
The industry for which fractions are used as feedstock, the starting materials for making other chemicals.
Topics that use Petrochemical industry
- Fractional distillation and petrochemicals (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Alkenes
- Boiling point and molecular size
- Catenation and structural variety in carbon compounds
- Cracking
- Evaporation and condensation
- Finite resources
- Fraction
- Fractional distillation
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