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What are fossil fuels, as organic compounds, made from?

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Fossil fuel is a general term for buried combustible geologic deposits of organic materials, formed from decayed plants and animals that have been converted to crude oil, coal, natural gas, or heavy oils by exposure to heat and pressure in the earth's crust over hundreds of millions of years
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Answer:they are made from dead organisms that by the time are being decomposed

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