Which compound is used to make asphalt? a saturated hydrocarbon that has more than 35 carbons in its chain a saturated hydrocarbon that has between 17 and 35 carbons in its chain a saturated hydrocarbon that has between 5 and 8 carbons in its chain a saturated hydrocarbon that has between 1 and 2 carbons in its chain

Asphalt is a byproduct of making gasoline, diesel, kerosene, jet fuel, all from crude oil pumped from the ground. Asphalt is the garbage or waste that comes out the bottom of the process of distilling those products. They heat the thick oily-sooty gunky asphalt and mix it with rock or sand and make roads out of it. So the compound would be the long hydrocarbon chains. 

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