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Look at with examples the advantages and disadvantages of liquid and gaseous fuels
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Look at with examples the advantages and disadvantages of liquid and gaseous fuels. Different types of fuels have been used throughout out time, because of their properties, or the technology needed to make them usable. The term fuel is generally limited to those substances that burn readily in air or oxygen, emitting large quantities of heat. Fuels are used for heating, for the production of steam for heating and power purposes, for powering internal-combustion engines, and for a direct source of power in jet and rocket propulsion. Gaseous fuels Fuel gases consist principally of hydrocarbons, that is, of molecular compounds of carbon and hydrogen. The properties of the various gases depend on the number and arrangement of the carbon and hydrogen atoms within their molecules. All these gases are odorless in the pure state, and carbon monoxide is toxic. It is therefore common practice to add sulphur compounds to manufactured gas; such...
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