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petroleum

[puh-troh-lee-uhm] / pəˈtroʊ li əm /


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He urged people to consider a number of factors that could impact the refinery's future performance, including disruptions to crude oil supply, operational challenges, regulatory changes and fluctuations in demand for refined petroleum products.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

India's exports to the US include electronics, pharmaceuticals, machinery, jewellery, chemicals, textiles and petroleum products.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

The combined cost of gas and diesel is now $700 million higher per day compared to a year ago, Patrick De Haan, Gas Buddy’s head of petroleum analysis, said Thursday on X.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

In late August, QatarEnergy—the state-owned petroleum company of Qatar—extended force majeure on contracted supplies for some buyers into early November.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Once I read in a magazine that you can make lipstick by mixing Kool-Aid with petroleum jelly.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

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

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

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

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




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