Combined Science GCSE
Ancient biomass
What Ancient biomass means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Ancient biomass
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Crude oil is the remains of an ancient biomass consisting mainly of plankton that was buried in mud.
Topics that use Ancient biomass
- Crude oil, hydrocarbons and alkanes (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Crude oil
- Finite resource
- Formation over millions of years
- Fractional distillation
- General formula CnH2n+2
- Homologous series
- Non-renewable resource
- Saturated hydrocarbons
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