ELi5: how do we get gasoline, kerosene, and diesel from the same crude oil?

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I get that there’s some sense of just letting it sit there and heating it up, but I don’t get it.

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Crude oil is basically a mix out of different substances, that have different chemical characteristics. Crude Oil is not useable for most purposes, but the different pieces are. One of the attributes they are different in is the boiling point, so you can use heat to take them apart. But in the beginning, all of the fuels are mixed together.

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