What is gasoline made of?

Like exactly what is it composed of?

Answer:
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here are the constituents...

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*Gasoline is known as an aliphatic hydrocarbon.....k

* In other words, gasoline is made up of molecules composed of nothing but hydrogen and carbon arranged in chains..,..

*Gasoline molecules have from seven to 11 carbons in each chain......

*Gasoline is composed primarily of the alkanes (paraffins) ...

Molecules found in gasoline
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* Heptane , Octane , Nonane , Decane *
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AFTER BURNING.....

When you burn gasoline under ideal conditions, with plenty of oxygen, you get carbon dioxide (from the carbon atoms in gasoline), water (from the hydrogen atoms) and lots of heat.

A gallon of gasoline contains about 132x106 joules of energy, which is equivalent to 125,000 BTU or 36,650 watt-hours:

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ethanol , methanol and additives to clean and protect the compustion chamber

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