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fracting

fracting is the alternative form of fracking.

Meaning of fracking

Noun

fracking (usually uncountable, plural frackings)

  1. (usually, oil industry) Hydraulic fracturing.
    • Still, environmentalists look to the U.S., where drilling with fracking is now a “megatrend” and where thousands of wells dot the landscape in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado. They worry about higher greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional natural gas—because of the energy used to get the...2010 July 25, Andrew Chung, “Quebec between a rock and a hard place on gas from shale”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2010, retrieved 26 Jul 2010

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Questions about fracting

What is fracting the alternative form of?
Fracting is the alternative form of fracking.

Words near fracting in the dictionary

  1. fractances
  2. fracted
  3. fracti
  4. fractile
  5. fractiles
  6. fracting
  7. fraction
  8. fraction bar
  9. fraction bars
  10. fraction slash
  11. fraction slashes

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