What form of energy is stored in fossil fuels?
At A-level chemistry we learned that fossil fuels are organic compounds and they are made up of long chains of hydrocarbons. Also that most fuels are crude oil products. And many of these fuels are alkanes (Branched and Cyclic). Burning/cracking hydrocarbons produce carobon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide (depending on the hydrocarbon formulea). At GCSE geography we learnt that fossil fuels were made from carbon compacted in the ground for millions of years.
