What is the process of oil being turned into plastic?
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What we think of as “oil” is actually a slurry of different chemical compounds that vary depending on the unique circumstances that created the oil deep under ground. Once we’ve extracted the oil, we separate the useful parts that we can burn for fuel and we’re left with the heavy “waste” leftovers. In the early days, we just threw this stuff out but eventually someone figured out that the waste had some useful compounds that could be heated and molded into shape: **the first plastics**
From there, we rapidly learned that adding some stuff or reacting those compounds in a particular way made new unique and useful plastics that could be modified for seemingly any purpose!
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