Why are carbon and its compounds used as fuels for most applications?
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• There are food, clothes, medicine, books, or many things that all of you are based on this versatile element carbon.
• The amount of carbon present in the earth's crust and in the atmosphere is very small.
• Earth's crust contains only 0.02% carbon carbonate, hydrogencarbonates, types of coal, and petroleum as minerals.
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The carbon compounds, used as a fuel, have high calorific values. Therefore, carbon and its compounds are used as fuels for most applications. Most of the carbon compounds give a lot of heat and light when burnt in air. Saturated hydrocarbons burn with a clean flame and no smoke is produced.
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