Naphtha

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of several highly volatile, flammable liquid mixtures of hydrocarbons distilled from petroleum, coal tar, and natural gas and used as fuel, as solvents, and in making various chemicals.
  • n. Obsolete Petroleum.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Naturally-occurring liquid petroleum.
  • n. Any of a wide variety of aliphatic or aromatic liquid hydrocarbon mixtures distilled from petroleum or coal tar, especially as used in solvents or petrol.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The complex mixture of volatile, liquid, inflammable hydrocarbons, occurring naturally, and usually called crude petroleum, mineral oil, or rock oil.
  • n. One of several volatile inflammable liquids obtained by the distillation of certain carbonaceous materials and resembling the naphtha from petroleum
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In ancient writers, a more fluid and volatile variety of asphalt or bitumen.
  • n. In modern use, an artificial volatile colorless liquid obtained from petroleum.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of various volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures; used chiefly as solvents
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    naphthenic    napalm    naphthene   
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    petroleum   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    paraffin    benzene    turpentine    petroleum    benzine    rosin    saltpeter    camphor    alum    sulphur