Combined Science GCSE
Natural carbon compounds
What Natural carbon compounds means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Natural carbon compounds
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Compounds obtained from living organisms or geological sources, for example hydrocarbons in crude oil and carbohydrates in plants.
Topics that use Natural carbon compounds
- Fractional distillation and petrochemicals (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Cracking and alkenes
- Crude oil
- Evaporation and condensation
- Fraction
- Fractional distillation
- Homologous series
- Hydrocarbons
- Industrial uses of crude oil fractions
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