Petroleum

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A thick, flammable, yellow-to-black mixture of gaseous, liquid, and solid hydrocarbons that occurs naturally beneath the earth's surface, can be separated into fractions including natural gas, gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, fuel and lubricating oils, paraffin wax, and asphalt and is used as raw material for a wide variety of derivative products.
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  • n. A flammable liquid ranging in color from clear to very dark brown and black, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons, occurring naturally in deposits under earth surface.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may vary much in appearance, composition, and properties. It is refined by distillation, and the products include kerosene, benzine, gasoline, paraffin, etc.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An oily substance of great economical importance, especially as a source of light, occurring naturally oozing from crevices in rocks, or floating on the surface of water, and also obtained in very large quantity in various parts of the world by boring into the rock; rock-oil.
  • n. Of the entire product of petroleum throughout the world approximately 50 per cent. is furnished by Russia, 40 per cent, by the United States, and 10 per cent. by Canada, Austria, Rumania, the Sunda Islands, Burmah, Japan, and (in quite small proportion) Germany, South America, and Italy. California, Texas, and Kansas have of late largely increased their output, chiefly of crude fuel-oil, while in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia there has been a diminished yield. It should be noted that American and Russian petroleum differ materially in chemical composition, the former consisting mainly of hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, while the latter represent chiefly naphthenes, isomeric but not identical with the members of the olefine series.
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  • n. a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fossil fuel    oil   
    Cross Reference
    petroleum briquet    solidified petroleum   
    Hyponym
    resid    residual oil   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    rock oil    kerosene    petrol    gasoline    naphtha   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    linoleum   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gasoline    fuel    kerosene    hydrocarbon    naphtha   
     
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