2. Answer the following questions:
What does petroleum consist of?
What is petroleum formed of?
What has happened with the decayed residue after hundreds of millions of years?
How long has petroleum been utilized by humans? For what purposes?
When was an early petroleum industry established?
Where and when were oil fields exploited to produce naphtha?
Who, when, and how described the fields in the area around modern Baku, Azerbaijan?
What energy resources were used for lighting, heating, and cooking purposes before oil?
What could kerosene be extracted from?
When did oil become the most valuable commodity traded on the world market?
3. Fill in the gaps and translate the sentences:
skimmed oil |
alembic |
coal |
residue |
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unrefined state |
oil well |
kerosene |
earth's crust |
whale oil |
naphtha |
oil lamp |
organic compound |
molecular weight |
destructive distillation |
carbon-rich remains |
tar |
heating fuel |
Example: Complex mixture is a mixture of many components in inexact proportions, usually natural.
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molecular mass – молекулярна маса blubber – медуза continuous – безперервний oil-based fuel – паливо на основі нафти evaporation – випаровування combustion – горіння filtration – фільтрація residuum – залишок radical – радикал, основа raw state – сирий стан topped oil – нафта, очищена від бензину |
topped crude petroleum – нафта, очищена від бензину modified pitch – видозміна смоли pyrolysis – піроліз, термодеструкція feedstock – сировина для промисловості reagent – реагент catalyst – каталіст solvent – розчинник steam – пара phenol – фенол, карбонова кислота solid shell – тверда оболонка mantle – мантія |
flammable liquid – легкозаймиста речовина condensate – конденсат coal tar – кам’яновугільна смола peat – торф combustible liquid – горюча рідина alchemical still – алхімічний дистилятор vessel – посудина rock strata – товща гірських порід vein – вена coal bed – шар вугілля coal seam – пласт вугілля |
