What gas really is GAS?

  • stillthere
    2nd August Member 0 Permalink

    What kind of gas really is GAS, and what kind of liquid really is OIL? Just asking.

  • EnganK
    2nd August Member 1 Permalink
    GAS is gaseous hydrocarbons
    OIL is liquid hydrocarbons
    It is unlikely that you will be able to get a more specific answer.
  • NF
    2nd August Member 1 Permalink

    @stillthere (View Post)

     Essentially what EnganK said, it's all the hydrocarbons gases in one element. Like NBLE is all the nobel gases in one element, it's helium pretty much. 

  • namename
    5th August Member 0 Permalink

    so is it like methane? 

  • NF
    5th August Member 0 Permalink

    @namename (View Post)

     Methane is a hydrocarbon, so therefore GAS covers that. The only hydrocarbon GAS doesn't cover is RFRG, which is essentially freon. RFRG is a halocarbon. 

  • MachineMan
    7th August Member 1 Permalink

    GAS is natural gas; in real life, oil and natural gas resevoirs are often found together and oil and natural gas can sometimes even occupy the same resevoir.  The fact that OIL turns into GAS and vice versa is testament to that.

     

    @NF (View Post)

    RFRG is a chlorofluorocarbon, or CFC.  In real life, CFCs were the first non-toxic, non-flammable, and stable refrigerants; invented by Thomas Midgley Jr.  A CFC is essentialy and acidic gas mixed with carbon.  CAUS (and acidic gas) mixing with GAS (which has carbon in it) to make RFGL which can then become RFRG is testament to that.

    Edited once by MachineMan. Last: 7th August
  • NF
    8th August Member 1 Permalink

    @MachineMan (View Post)

     That doesn't take away from the fact it's potentially freon, which is a CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) as well.