what is meant byy fossil fuel what are their types
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Fossil fuels consist of deposits of once living organisms. The organic matter takes centuries to form. Fossil fuels principally consist of carbon and hydrogen bonds. There are three types of fossil fuels which can all be used for energy provision; coal, oil and natural gas.
Explanation:
Fossil fuel just means that the fuel has been millions of years in the making, like a fossil. The carbon content from living organisms, usually plant, all those years ago was buried, compacted, and heated. The result is a chemical change into carbon containing solids (like coal, which includes anthracite, bituminous, and lignite), liquids (lie oil, which can be from oil shale, tar sands, or more easily accessible and more fluid deposits), and gases (mainly natural gas, which is predominately methane). The carbon will burn to produce carbon dioxide. The fuels are not fossils in the typical sense of being mineralized, they are just the degraded carbon containing remains of long dead ancient organisms.