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Gasoline is manufactured as a product of the
petroleum refining process. This process starts with crude oil and separates out the different types of hydrocarbons through what is called fractional distillation. Fractional distillation takes advantage of the fact that different hydrocarbon components, each of which has a different application and different number of carbon atoms in a molecule, are progressively heavier and have progressively higher boiling points. The petroleum is heated to approximately 400 deg C (750 deg F), at which temperature it has become a mixture of liquid and vapor. This mixture, called the feedstock, is introduced into the refining tower...
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