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PETROLEUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
Synonyms:
crude; crude oil; fossil oil; oil; petroleum; rock oil
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("petroleum" is a kind of...):
fossil fuel (fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen content)
oil (a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water)
Meronyms (substance of "petroleum"):
atomic number 6; C; carbon (an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "petroleum"):
resid; residual oil (oil products that remain after petroleum has been distilled)
Context examples:
A low viscosity liquid by-product of the distillation of petroleum consisting of a mixture of alkanes in the C15 to C40 range.
(Light Mineral Oil, NCI Thesaurus)
Benz[a,h]acridine is primarily found in petroleum refinery incinerator emissions, coal combustion emissions, cigarette smoke and coal tar pitch.
(Dibenz[a,h]acridine, NCI Thesaurus)
Dibenz[a,j]acridine is primarily found in gasoline exhaust, petroleum refinery incinerator emissions, coal combustion emissions, cigarette smoke and coal tar pitch.
(Dibenz[a,j]acridine, NCI Thesaurus)
There was a scandal about his drenching a dog with petroleum and setting it on fire—her ladyship’s dog, to make the matter worse—and that was only hushed up with difficulty.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
While electric vehicles offer many advantages—including reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the country's dependence on imported petroleum—at least one barrier stands in the way of their large-scale adoption: range anxiety.
(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)
Naphthalene is obtained from either coal tar or petroleum distillation and is primarily used to manufacture phthalic anhydride, but is also used in moth repellents.
(Naphthalene, NCI Thesaurus)
Indene[1,2,3-cd]pyrene is primarily found in certain foods, gasoline and diesel exhaust, cigarette smoke, coal tar and coal tar pitch, soot and petroleum asphalt.
(Indeno[1,2,3-cd]pyrene, NCI Thesaurus)
Carla Ivonne La Fuente Arias, a chemistry engineer at the University of São Paulo’s Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, told SciDev.Net: Our tests indicate that this new technique is able to generate a biodegradable plastic as strong as traditional ones made of petroleum.
(Scientists develop biodegradable plastic from cassava starch, SciDev.Net)
As part of an unusual mortality event investigation, a team of scientists has discovered that dead bottlenose dolphins stranded in the northern Gulf of Mexico since the start of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill have lung and adrenal lesions consistent with petroleum product exposure.
(Deepwater Horizon oil spill contributed to high number of Gulf dolphin deaths, NOAA)
Cocculus/nux vomica/tabacum/petroleum extract contains equal homeopathic units of the following extracts: extract of Cocculus indicus (fish berry), the fruit of the southeast Asian/Indian climbing plant Anamirta cocculus; extract of the seeds of Strychnos nux vomica (poison nut), an evergreen tree native to southeast Asia; extract of Nicotiana tabacum (tobacco); and petroleum.
(Cocculus/Nux vomica/Tabacum/Petroleum Extract, NCI Thesaurus)
