(Definition of âallotâ from the Cambridge Advanced Learnerâs Dictionary & Thesaurus Â© Cambridge University Press) allot in American English See all translations
Fossil fuel s-fuels derived from the remains of dead organisms. Examples include coal, oil, oil shales, tar sands, natural gas, and peat. Hydrocarbon s are molecules that incorporate both carbon and hydrogen. When hydrocarbon molecules are exposed to heat, the bonds linking the carbon and hydrogen atoms break.
In fact, most of the fossil fuels we find today were formed millions of years before the first dinosaurs. Formation of Coal. Fossil fuels were formed from plants and animals that lived 300 million years ago in primordial swamps and oceans (top).