What is the difference between Petroleum and Petrol?

Petroleum is crude oil (raw oil) which contains hundreds of different types of hydrocarbons all mixed together. It is a thick black liquid and is of little use.

Petrol is one of the useful hydrocarbon ( mixture of organic compounds) obtained by refining of petroleum.It is a transparent oil and used as a fuel in automobiles.

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peetroleum is in raw form.when its processed its called petrol

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Petroleum, or crude oil, is what is mined from the source rocks. After fractional distillation, products ;like kerosene and petrol are obtained from it.

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petroleum is a raw form and it is useless ! it can be used only after extraction ,petrol is one of its constituent componenets which is used after extracting it from crude oild/petroleum

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