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Chemistry For Your Life
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The Basics of Fuel
Methane, methane is that fuel? It's a natural gas. So you probably have seen it used in fuel, a literal fuel. propane is a more, has more carbons. It's made of three carbons and has eight hydrogens around it instead of one carbon with four. And propane gas is the thing that you burn in the tanks in the backyard usually for your gas grill. The best way I know how to describe it is some kind of fuel, something that is capable of burning in the presence of oxygen and there usually needs heat to get it going.
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