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A '''fossil fuel'''{{efn|The term has been considered a [[misnomer]] because it does not actually originate from [[fossils]], but from organic matter.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fleckenstein |first=Joseph E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s-SYCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA58 |publisher=CRC Press |title=Three-phase electrical power |date=2016 |isbn=978-1-4987-3778-4 |location=Boca Raton |pages=58 |oclc=958799795}}</ref>}} is a [[carbon compound]]- or [[hydrocarbon]]-containing material such as [[coal]], [[petroleum|oil]], and [[natural gas]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Fossil fuel |url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/fossil_fuel.htm |access-date=29 October 2021 |work=[[ScienceDaily]]}}</ref> formed naturally in the [[Earth's crust]] from the remains of
Some fossil fuels are further The origin of fossil fuels is the [[anaerobic decomposition]] of buried dead [[organism]]s containing [[organic molecules]] created by [[photosynthetic]] [[carbon fixation]].<ref name="thermochemistry of formation">{{cite web|title= thermochemistry of fossil fuel formation|url= http://www.geochemsoc.org/files/6214/1261/1770/SP-2_271-284_Sato.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920172448/http://www.geochemsoc.org/files/6214/1261/1770/SP-2_271-284_Sato.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-20 |url-status=live}}</ref> The conversion from these materials to high-carbon fossil fuels typically requires a geological process of millions of years.<ref>Paul Mann, Lisa Gahagan, and Mark B. Gordon, "Tectonic setting of the world's giant oil and gas fields", in [[Michel T. Halbouty]] (ed.) [https://books.google.com/books?id=mrghwzjeU-AC&pg=PA50 ''Giant Oil and Gas Fields of the Decade, 1990–1999''], Tulsa, Okla.: [[American Association of Petroleum Geologists]], p. 50, accessed 22 June 2009.</ref> Due to the length of time it takes nature to form them, fossil fuels are considered [[non-renewable resource]]s.
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