Assertion: crude oil | /r/ObjectUse | used as raw material
Facets:
value: for many chemical products
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for plastics
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Petroleum is also used as a raw material for many chemical products and plastics and is hence called “mother of all commodities”.
text: It is usually found in large quantities below the surface of the earth and is used as a fuel and raw material in the chemical industry.
text: According to the American Heritage Dictionary, petroleum is a "thick, flammable, yellow-to-black mixture of gaseous, liquid, and solid hydrocarbons that occurs naturally beneath the earth's surface, can be separated into fractions including natural gas, gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, fuel, and lubricating oils, paraffin wax, and asphalt and is used as raw material for a wide variety of derivative products.