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Asphaltenes – complex mixture of big organic molecules, mostly of aromatic structure enriched with heteroatoms. Asphaltenes are an integral part of oil/petroleum and bitumen. They are the result of diagenesis and metagenesis, but in oil/petroleum reservoirs they are the by-product of cracking. An asphaltene molecule is very similar to a kerogen molecule in struct [..]
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