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What is the relationship between non-renewable resource and chemical energy?
Chemical energy can be renewable or non-renewable. For example, burning fossil fuels with oxygen is non-renewable. In fossil fuels, the chemical bonds between atomic structures are broken down. The energy released by this process is used to produced heat.
What is a non-renewable source of chemical energy?
There are four major types of nonrenewable resources: oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear energy. Oil, natural gas, and coal are collectively called fossil fuels. Fossil fuels were formed within the Earth from dead plants and animals over millions of years—hence the name “fossil” fuels.
How does chemistry relate to renewable energy?
Chemistry has an important role to play both in improving current solar photovoltaic technologies and developing new ones. Longer term there is also the possibility of using solar energy and abundant raw materials, such as water and carbon dioxide, to produce fuels and other chemicals.
What is the relationship between nonrenewable and renewable resources?
Resources are characterized as renewable or nonrenewable; a renewable resource can replenish itself at the rate it is used, while a nonrenewable resource has a limited supply. Renewable resources include timber, wind, and solar while nonrenewable resources include coal and natural gas.
How are forces and energy related to chemistry? Chemical bonds are attractions due to electromagnetic force. Chemical bonds are attractions between opposite electric charges. This bond is potential energy that changes to kinetic energy during chemical reactions when the atoms and molecules move around.
How is chemical energy in fuels released?
Chemical energy is stored in the bonds that hold the atoms of the substance together. If some of these bonds can be broken and the atoms rearranged, some of that energy can be released from the fuel. The chemical energy is usually released as heat energy and possibly light energy.
Is alcohol renewable or nonrenewable?
Ethanol is a renewable biofuel because it is made from biomass. Ethanol is a clear, colorless alcohol made from a variety of biomass materials called feedstocks (the raw materials used to make a product).