Links to useful petroleum websites

Petroleum
Organic chemistry notes             good on alkanes and other structures
Density detective                       Archimedes and the case of the golden crown
Oil refining                                clearly explained and illustrated
Petroleum distillation                  how distillation works, very detailed              
Polymers page                           everything about plastics
American Petroleum Institute     oil industry's site.  Warning: biased against environmentalists
Gasoline octane ratings              what do they really mean? 
Hybrid cars                                they're gas AND electric.  Cool site shows how these efficient vehicles work
Fuel cells                                   cars with no exhaust? clear explanation of this alternative power source
Hydrogen cars no good?           disagrees with Pres. Bush and the hydrogen car hype
Petroleum addiction                   provocative metaphor for our high-energy culture
The price of addiction                why we need to move beyond petroleum and fossil fuels
Buckyballs                                all about fullerenes
Buckyball art                             floating in space
 

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