You’ve probably heard this one before: Plastic is made from oil, and oil is made from dinosaurs, so a plastic dinosaur is made out of real dinosaur. It sounds pretty profound… but it’s not that simple.
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Sources:
http://chemistry.about.com/b/2014/05/07/oil-comes-from-dinosaurs-fact-or-fiction.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/08/03/science/03oil_graphic.html
http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=34&t=6
http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=hgls_home
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/our-energy-choices/coal-and-other-fossil-fuels/how-is-natural-gas-formed.html#.V6oZ6rgrKM8
