factional distillation (crude oil)

• The components with lower boiling points condense at the top of the column, while those with higher boiling points condense at the bottom.
• Crude oil is heated and vaporized in a fractionating column, and the vapor rises through the column, condensing at different heights depending on their boiling points.
• Factional distillation is a process used to separate crude oil into different components based on their boiling points.
• The temperature in the fractionating column decreases as you move up from the bottom to the top.
• crude oil is a fossil fuel, formed from the remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago.
• crude oil is mixture of lots of different hydrocarbons
• at the top of the fractionating column is the gases with a lower boiling point due to them having shorter carbon chains (easily breakable)