petroleum
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Lance, by contrast, is a petroleum engineer who started his career handling oil field data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
But the petroleum products are masked in manifests — labeled waste material, lubricants, residues and other items not subject to the high taxes that Mexico levies on imported fuel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
In a month’s time, global benchmark Brent crude could be trading at around $85 to $90 a barrel, with petroleum product markets remaining tighter than crude prices suggest, said Innes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
But Chevron also experienced some negative impacts from the war, pointing to reduced petroleum output from the "Partitioned Zone" between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait due to the war.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
The commercial product usually contains combinations of several chemicals, suspended in a petroleum distillate plus some dispersing agent.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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At present little is known as to how far many of the very cheap distillates and crude petroleums can be used as fuel for internal-combustion engines.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 by Herbert M. Wilson
By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Zaloziecki found, according to this method, in three samples of Galician petroleums, 4.6, 5.8 and 6.5 per cent., respectively, of proto-paraffine.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various
The method was carried out as above with four samples of American petroleums, Colorado oil from Florence, Col.;
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various
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