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For questions about the chemistry of crude oil or natural gas products.

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When was oil discovered to be of biological origin?

If you look at a gas or liquid chromatogram of crude oil, you see a remarkable preponderance of (unbranched) even-numbered carbon compounds (re acetyl CoA homologation). You also see traces of polycy …
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