Bridges wrote:
Thanks for the answer, but why can't we deduce the amount of each hydrocarbon and put it together ourselves? They have been able to dissect the human genome with over a million parts, why can't we do this with gas? I'm just trying to understand why we can't manufacture something even if it is not petroleum as we get it from the ground. It seems we can do so much but why are we unable to do this?
Even if we know the elemental constituents of a compound does not mean we can produce it.
Nature has some mysterious constructs we have yet to fathomed.