### energy:

Crude oil
* All crude oil contains some amount of methane or other gases dissolved in it.
* Most crude oil is recovered from geological formations through a pumping process
  - lies in underground formations called traps
* Some crude oil affects germination growth
  - contains materials
  - is burned as fuel in stoves and boilers without processing
* can also cause severe irritation of the skin.
* comes in many forms.
* constitute over two-third of the country's total exports.
* contains a lot of sulfur
  - mixture of gasoline, kerosene and heavy oils
* continues to be an important factor in explaining price increases over year-ago levels
  - climb upward in price as does natural gas
* creates conditions.
* determines all retail prices for petroleum fuel.
* has a suffocating, toxic effect and is like a heavy tar
  - components too thick, waxy and complicated for the bacteria to handle
  - so much sulfur in it
* includes lease condensate
  - natural gas liquids and condensates
* is also the source of jet fuel for airlines.
* is an energy
  - important export
  - bought and sold on world commodity markets at world prices
  - carried in oil tankers or in bulk and oil carriers
  - composed of molecules called hydrocarbons
  - converted into useful products in a refinery
  - fossil fuel
  - found in reservoirs below the earth's surface
* is made by the earth from decayed plants and animals which lived millions of years ago
  - mostly of hydrocarbons
  - up a variety of hydrocarbons
  - measured in barrels, abbreviated bbls
  - only one factor influencing the retail price of petrol
  - primarily a mixture of hydrocarbon compounds
  - produced in small quantities for export from offshore and inland sites
  - recovered by drilling holes as deep as five miles into the earth's crust
* is refined for multiple uses such as automobile fuel and plastics
  - in Abidjan
  - toxic if ingested
* is used to make home heating oil, diesel fuel, jet fuel, and gasoline
  - liquid petroleum products like gasoline, diesel fuel, and heating oil
* liquid that comes from reservoirs below the earth's surface.
* means any naturally occurring, unrefined petroleum liquid.
* mixture of hydrocarbons which belong to the alkane series
  - with some oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur impurities
* mixture of many different hydrocarbons of different size chains
  - substances
  - petroleum liquids and gases in various combinations
* produces many byproducts important to our lives.
* provides the starting materials for the manufacture of plastics.
* range in consistency from water to tar-like solids, and in color from clear to black.
* ranges in color from almost clear to green, amber, brown or black.
* rises in a murky cloud and blackens the stream where no fish swim anywhere.
* vary in color , from clear to tar-black, and in viscosity , from water to almost solid.
* very complex mixture of hydrocarbons with literally thousands of different molecules.

Earth energy
* flows upward to legs, through pelvis and returns to earth.
* is the energy of growth, expansion, new beginnings, nourishment, and health
  - used by geothermal heat pumps

Electric energy
* Most electric energy produces heat.
* can move in certain directions creating an electric current.
* is combined with a chemical to form a reaction of reverse plating
  - measured in kilowatt hours , or kwh
  - stored in batteries
  - the ability to do work by means of electric devices
* measures in joules.
* plays a vital role in our lives.
* travels in a closed circuit to light a bulb.
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