James Cook (1728-1779) Famous For: Discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. An English captain who circumnavigated around the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. He made contact with the inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands, Australia, New Zealand, and around the Indian Ocean back to the Atlantic. He died while serving the Crown in Hawaii.
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection [DEP] relies on laboratory tests called EPH [Extractable Petroleum Hydrocarbons] and VPH [Volatile Petroleum Hydrocarbons] to test for the presence of gasoline or fuel oil in drinking water.
1 Hydrocarbons contain a lot of energy. 2  Many of the things derived from crude oil like gasoline, diesel fuel, paraffin wax and so on take advantage of this energy. 3  Hydrocarbons can take on many different forms. 4  The smallest hydrocarbon is methane (CH 4), which is a gas that is a lighter than air.To see examples of the structures of these types of hydrocarbons, see the OSHA Technical Manual and this page on the Refining of Petroleum. Now that we know what's in crude oil, let's see what we can make from it.