Fossil fuels are made by the decay of living things. because living things are always dying and decaying, why are fossil fuels not a renewable source of energy?
a. they can only be formed by decay of reptiles.
b. they can only be formed by decay of swamp plants.
c. they take millions of years to form.
d. they can only be formed deep under the sea.

The answer is: C. They take millions of years to form.

Fossil fuel is a fuel formed by anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms.

If there was oxygen the organic matter would not decomposed and formed oil and gas, because there would be reaction of oxidation.

The age of the organisms and their resulting fossil fuels is typically millions of years

Fossil fuel is mixture (solution) consist of several different hydrocarbons (alkanes, alkenes...), aromatic compounds.

the role of the microscope world in creating new materials .

most historians agree that gabriel mouton, the vicar of st. paul’s church in lyons, france, is the “founding father” of the metric system. he proposed a decimal system of measurement in 1670. mouton based it on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth (now called a nautical mile, 1852 meters). he also proposed the swing-length of a pendulum with a frequency of one beat per second as the unit of length (about 25 cm). a pendulum beating with this length would have been fairly easy to produce, thus facilitating the widespread distribution of uniform standards. over the years, his work was revised, improved, and extended by a number of french scientists.

the political sponsor of weights and measures reform in the french revolutionary national assembly was the bishop of autun, better known as talleyrand. under his auspices, the french academy appointed several committees to carry out the work of developing a usable system of weights and measures for france. one of the committees recommended a decimalized measurement system based upon a length equal to one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the earth’s meridian (i.e., one ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and the north pole).