• Ellia Plissken
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    19 hours ago

    yeah it’s wild to me that petroleum jelly and kerosene come from the same thing

    • @[email protected]
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      28 hours ago

      that is quite simple actually.

      Butter and skimmed milk also come from the same source. You have a complex mixture of stuff that is differently viscose, so in mixture it all ends up with a certain viscosity. Now you separate it and you get stuff that is almost solid and you get stuff, that is very liquid, or in the case of crude oil you get some gaseous fractions.