Carbon Crude Oil
Periodic Table Poster   My periodic table poster is now available!Periodic Table PosterPeriodic Table PosterPeriodic Table Poster
3D3DCrude Oil.
Very hard to get considering how much of the stuff trades hands every day. Just try to buy less than a shipload of it. This is semi-sweet crude from the Frontier Formation in Riverton, Wyoming, and dates to the late Cretaceous, about 65 million years ago. The "sweetness" of crude refers to its sulfur content: The "light sweet crude" you hear about on the news whenever its price is particularly extreme is low-sulfur, low-viscosity crude considered particularly disarable for refining into gasoline.
It actually does taste sweet, I'm told by people who probably haven't tasted it either.
Source: eBay seller quartzpegmatite
Contributor: Theodore Gray
Acquired: 11 March, 2009
Text Updated: 13 March, 2009
Price: Donated
Size: 1"
Composition: CH2
Carbon