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  2. Hydrocarbon - Wikipedia

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    Burning hydrocarbons as fuel, which produces carbon dioxide and water, is a major contributor to anthropogenic global warming. Hydrocarbons are introduced into the environment through their extensive use as fuels and chemicals as well as through leaks or accidental spills during exploration, production, refining, or transport of fossil fuels.

  3. Nuclear fuel - Wikipedia

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    It can be made by heating uranyl nitrate to form UO 2. UO 2 (NO 3) 2 · 6 H 2 O → UO 2 + 2 NO 2 + ½ O 2 + 6 H 2 O (g) This is then converted by heating with hydrogen to form UO 2. It can be made from enriched uranium hexafluoride by reacting with ammonia to form a solid called ammonium diuranate, (NH 4) 2 U 2 O 7. This is then heated to form UO

  4. Petroleum - Wikipedia

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    Petroleum is a fossil fuel derived from fossilized organic materials, such as zooplankton and algae. [70] [71] Vast amounts of these remains settled to sea or lake bottoms where they were covered in stagnant water (water with no dissolved oxygen) or sediments such as mud and silt faster than they could decompose aerobically.

  5. Hydrogen production - Wikipedia

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    Methods to produce hydrogen without the use of fossil fuels involve the process of water splitting, or splitting the water molecule (H 2 O) into its components oxygen and hydrogen. When the source of energy for water splitting is renewable or low-carbon, the hydrogen produced is sometimes referred to as green hydrogen. The conversion can be ...

  6. Chemical bonding of water - Wikipedia

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    In other words, if water was formed from two identical O-H bonds and two identical sp 3 lone pairs on the oxygen atom as predicted by valence bond theory, then its photoelectron spectrum (PES) would have two (degenerate) peaks and energy, one for the two O-H bonds and the other for the two sp 3 lone pairs.

  7. Water - Wikipedia

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    Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula H 2 O.It is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, [c] and nearly colorless chemical substance.It is the main constituent of Earth's hydrosphere and the fluids of all known living organisms (in which it acts as a solvent [20]).

  8. The Hope and Hype of Fusion Energy, Explained - AOL

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    Yes, NIF produced 3.15 million joules of fusion energy–enough to boil 10 teapots of water–with just 2 million joules of laser energy in its watershed 2022 ignition. But applying that laser ...

  9. Fossil fuel - Wikipedia

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    The origin of fossil fuels is the anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms. The conversion from these organic materials to high-carbon fossil fuels typically requires a geological process of millions of years. [4] Due to the length of time it takes nature to form them, fossil fuels are considered non-renewable resources.