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US
/ˌpɛtɹoʊˈkɛmɪkəɫ/
]
[ UK /pˌɛtɹəʊkˈɛmɪkəl/ ]
[ UK /pˌɛtɹəʊkˈɛmɪkəl/ ]
NOUN
- any compound obtained from petroleum or natural gas
How To Use petrochemical In A Sentence
- Import and export statistics show that the export ratio of the nation's mid- and downstream petrochemical products is gradually rising.
- This engineering company makes exhaust control systems for diesel engines and devices used to transfer gas petrochemicals safely. Times, Sunday Times
- A further important consequence was the more rapid implementation of planned petrochemical projects in response to sharp rises in oil production and oil prices.
- Although there are no data showing the connection between the two magmatic systems at shallow crustal levels during the eruption, the petrochemical data point to a common parent magma derived from a unique deep source.
- As comprehensively biocidal as petroleum and its enormous empire of petrochemical synthetics have been, Cannabis hemp offers exactly the opposite. See No Hemp, Hear No Hemp, Speak No Hemp, Part II
- The company blamed intense price-cutting in depressed markets which further eroded petrochemical margins.
- The conventional treatment process in low - silicon water workshop of water plant of Shanghai Petrochemical Co.
- While methane generally serves as a fuel and is often simply burned off at a refinery, the other light gases can serve as the starting materials for plastics and polymers or as feedstock for a number of other petrochemicals.
- The modern kitchen and its accessories, from aluminum to petrochemicals, had to be created.
- Reliance Industries Ltd will export petrochemicals worth $700 million to China this year.