[
UK
/bˈɛnziːn/
]
[ US /ˈbɛnzin/ ]
[ US /ˈbɛnzin/ ]
NOUN
- a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly flammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds
How To Use benzine In A Sentence
- We also asked for about 2500 liters of benzine for our vehicles.
- The lawsuit alleges on April 10, 2007, and on days thereafter harmful chemicals, such as benzine and aluminum silica, were released into the air from the plant at The Daily News - News
- The refinery would now produce fuel with ten times lower sulphur levels and two thirds lower benzine levels, supplying New Zealand with some of the world's cleanest burning and highest quality fuels.
- To quicken the flames, benzine and oil were used in great quantities.
- A slick of toxic benzine floats into the city, confirming that the river, the city's main supply of water, is dangerously polluted.
- It is now known to us as benzine, which is so largely employed in the industrial arts. Brave Men and Women
- There are as many taxicabs as before, but instead of benzine, which is wanted for the army, they now use other spirit. The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915
- Use carbona instead of gasoline or benzine when possible, as it cannot burn. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts
- We are, therefore, in the right road, not only for economically producing permanent prints on paper, but also for making zinc plates in which the phototype film of bichromatized gelatine is replaced by a solution of marine-glue and benzine. Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881
- The Yankees had swelled up on some kind of benzine and had hired a hack and taken two women out riding, and when we rounded them up each one had his feet out of the window of the hack, and they were enjoying themselves immensely. How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887