Gasoline is a mixture of about **0
chemicals refined from crude oil. Its usually a colorless, light
brown or pink liquid. Gasoline is used in cars, boats, motorcycles,
lawn mowers and other engines. Gasoline usually contains additives
affecting the way it burns.
Gasoline is most often produced by
the fractional distillation of crude oil. The crude oil is
separated into fractions according to different boiling points of
hydrocarbons of varying chain lengths. This fractional distillation
process yields approximately *5% of straight-run gasoline from each
barrel of crude oil.
The yield of gasoline may be doubled
by converting higher or lower boiling point fractions into
hydrocarbons in the gasoline range.
