Oil


 * __Oil-__ **any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.

There are 4 different types of oil: 1. essential oil 2. mineral oil 3. organic oils 4. synthetic oils

Some of the uses of oil are: 1. Food 2. Hair 3. Fuel 4. Electricity generation 5. Heat Transportation 6. Lubrication 7. Painting 8. Petrochemicals (and that's only to name a few)

Advantages: 1. An oil-fuelled power station can be built almost anywhere 2. Very large amounts of electricity can be generated in one place using oil 3. Widely and easily distributed all over the world through rail and sea tankers

Disadvantages: 1. it is non-renewable and fast depleting 2. burning it releases carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas, that had been stored in the earth for millions of years 3. Oil spills as well as evaporation and fumes pollutes the environment