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Refining Crude Oil

INTO THE OUTDOORS aims to get kids to want to go outside to explore, discover and understand the natural world around them.

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Refining Crude Oil

Into the Outdoors Season 1 Episode 11 | 26m 46s | CC

Our ITO adventure team helps unravel the complex chemistry and physics of how a hi-tech oil refinery turns worthless heavy crude into the transportation fuels that drive and fly our society. You won't believe what they uncover in rearranging hydrocarbon molecules like Legos! They also explore the refinery's impacts on local air and water quality.

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