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a natural fuel such as coal or oil, that was formed millions of years ago from dead animals or plants in the ground
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A fossil fuel is a fuel formed by natural processes, such as anaerobic decompositionof buried dead organisms, containing energy originating in ancient photosynthesis.The age of the organisms and their resulting fossil fuels is typically millions of years, and sometimes exceeds 650 million years.Fossil fuels contain high percentages of carbon and include petroleum, coal, and natural gas.[3] Other commonly used derivatives include kerosene and propane. Fossil fuels range from volatile materials with low carbon to hydrogen ratios like methane, to liquids like petroleum, to nonvolatile materials composed of almost pure carbon, like anthracite coal. Methane can be found in hydrocarbon fields either alone, associated with oil, or in the form of methane clathrates.
The theory that fossil fuels formed from the fossilized remains of dead plants by exposure to heat and pressure in the Earth's crust over millions of years was first introduced by Andreas Libavius "in his 1597 Alchemia [Alchymia]" and later by Mikhail Lomonosov"as early as 1757 and certainly by 1763".The first use of the term "fossil fuel" was by the German chemist Caspar Neumann, in English translation in 1759.
The theory that fossil fuels formed from the fossilized remains of dead plants by exposure to heat and pressure in the Earth's crust over millions of years was first introduced by Andreas Libavius "in his 1597 Alchemia [Alchymia]" and later by Mikhail Lomonosov"as early as 1757 and certainly by 1763".The first use of the term "fossil fuel" was by the German chemist Caspar Neumann, in English translation in 1759.
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