Water evaporated and come back as rain, how about all other substances like petroleum products, ores, gases?

Question

and minarals..

Answer 1

Water does evaporate and return to earth in the form of rain. Petroleum products contain water, and this will evaporate, leaving an oily slick behind. The petroleum itself will not evaporate as a whole product, only the water will separate out, given the right circumstances. Ores are solid matter, and can not evaporate. Gases are already in vapor form, so there is nothing for them to change. Minerals, like ores, are solid products, and solids will not evaporate.
That's probably a good thing! It would be pretty tough if minerals and ores did evaporate and rained down as rocks!

Answer 2

Matter cycles, no matter what. It may decompose and create new materials, but matter is matter and there is always the same quantity of it, but in shifting forms. Evaporation and condensation is only a difference in the state of water. Are you asking if other substances can evaporate as well, or are you asking if they are used, will they recycle into the same material? If that is the case, then yes, they will eventually be re-created in some way, but not quickly enough for human use in this day and age.

Answer 3

Water has a cycle because it all occurs within normal temperatures normally found on earth. Heat energy excites the water molecules, causing them to break loose ( evaporate ). When the water vapor cools, the atoms clump to particles in the air, then coalesce together to form rain.
Other materials on earth do not generally occur this way because the attractive forces between the atoms cannot be broken by normal earth temperatures, or in the case of gases, the atmosphere is too warm to allow these atoms to clump together.

Answer 4

Oils oxidize. Eventually, into simple whole ratio molecules like CO,CO2,H20 and O3,C6H6 etc. Gases stay in the atmosphere. All gases, different molecules have different boiling,melting and freezing points. Therefore, different gases condense and evaporate at different temeperatures. Just like water. But, on Earth Carbon Dioxide doesn't rain because plants absorb it very quickly and convert it into glucose chains. Oxygen is also absorbed quickly into our lungs and blood. Some Oxygen is trapped in rocks.Like Silactes,Quartz crystals (SiO2)etc.

Answer 5

When petroleum products evaporate, they eventually oxidize (spurred by sunlight) to carbon dioxide and water. Particulates of solid matter eventually fall back to earth and may be absorbed in soil.

Answer 6

carbon from burning fuels eventaully is absorbed by plants and incorporated in their structure. Maybe if we stopped cutting trees down they would eventually absorb all the carbon from the ancient trees that we are burning as oil and we'd be back where we started.