petroleum

[ UK /pətɹˈə‍ʊliːəm/ ]
[ US /pəˈtɹoʊɫiəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
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How To Use petroleum In A Sentence

  • Along with petroleum, the most important new source of energy was electricity.
  • He expanded this idea to the propose the ‘deep, hot biosphere’ which both generates methane and adds biogenic signatures to inorganic petroleum, and that part, at least, is looking more correct every year.
  • Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) would make a decision on whether to boost output to calm minister said on Tuesday he sees no push by OPEC members to raise oil output to counter a spike in prices to 18-month highs. WN.com - Business News
  • Known as chemurgy, the science lost much of its ‘reason for being’ after WWII when the petroleum industry redirected its attention from the war effort to commercial products.
  • The engines are fuelled by liquid petroleum gas, which means that there is no risk of a fire breaking out.
  • The engines are fuelled by liquid petroleum gas, which means that there is no risk of a fire breaking out.
  • Examples of this include companies that are extracting the petroleum from discarded plastic bottles and using it to create the polyester fibers that they turn into sportswear, and those producing synthetic gypsum roughly 20 percent of U.S. raw gypsum use from the byproduct of manufacturing and energy-generating processes, primarily from desulfurization of exhaust gases from coal power plants. John Friedman: Three Dimensions of Leadership
  • I was there to give the keynote speech at a conference on petroleum, and I've had certain influence in the area recently.
  • Mucus produced by the plant provides temporary and effective protection from petroleum damage.
  • Pollen traps constructed from petroleum jelly on microscope slides were attached to vertical wooden laths facing the direction of the prevailing wind.
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