Oil derived from coal, oil shales or tar sands is called:

syncrude

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bio-gas

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natural gas

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none of these

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Solution

The correct option is B natural gas
Oil derived from coal, oil shales or tar sands is called natural gas as it is obtained from nature, nothing artificial.
Coal is obtained naturally from the remnant of plants that grew in swamps hundreds of millions of years ago.
Oil shales is a sedimentary rock from which oil can be extracted.

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