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Give one word for the energy contained in fossil fuels like coal, petroleum and natural gas


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Chemical Energy

  1. Fossil fuels are buried flammable geologic deposits of organic substances such as dead plants and animals that got deposited under several thousand feet of silt.
  2. These deposits decayed with the passage of time and got converted to natural gas, coal, and petroleum due to the extreme heat and pressure inside the earth’s crust as a form of chemical energy.

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