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• The best medium might be petroleum, liquified gas, or something of that nature.From the entry nature
• Petroleum is the raw material refined into various fuels and needed for countless chemicals.From the entry raw material
• It's extremely hard to corner the petroleum market because there are so many players.From the entry corner
• Crude oil is fractionated in a refinery to produce a number of different petroleum products.From the entry fractionate
• Bio-materials may be substituted for petrochemical feedstocks as petroleum prices rise.From the entry feedstock
• So much petroleum is traded world wide that it forms a megamarket.From the entry megamarket
• The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.From the entry refined
• As the prices of petroleum, natural gas, and coal fluctuate over the years, the petrochemical industry can to some extent switch feedstocks.From the entry petrochemical
• Petroleum is largely insoluble in water.From the entry insoluble
• Perhaps the closest analogy to how A.I. works as a business expense is petroleum products.2026 August 3, Lydia DePillis, “What Are Companies Getting for All That A.I. Spending?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry feedstock
• Fracking is mostly associated with this idea of getting petroleum resources out of the earth.2024 May 31, Ezra Klein, quoting D. Graham Burnett, “Your Mind Is Being Fracked. The historian of science D. Graham Burnett on what’s at…. From the entry human fracking
• We regulate the petroleum industry, because we see the dangers of fracking the earth.2024 September 12, D. Graham Burnett, Peter Schmidt, “Turning the tide on “human fracking””, in The Daily Princetonian. From the entry human fracking
• Decisively, there was the prospect of getting my hands on a slice of that petroleum fund.2013, Tim Moore, Frost on my Moustache. From the entry get one's hands on
• The petroleum that fuels our daily lives is getting harder to find.2002, Dan Ramsey, Complete Idiot’s Guide to Solar Power for Your Home (Complete Idiot’s Guide), Indianapolis, Ind.: Alpha Books, →ISBN…. From the entry Houston, we have a problem
• Petroleum has been found in the western Dzungarian Basin near the city of Karamai (Kolamayi).[1979, Frederic M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sobin, Stephen Andors, “Land and Population”, in Encyclopedia of China Today, Eurasia Press, →ISBN…. From the entry Kelamayi
• Petroleum is by far the most important fuel resource in Xinjiang.1979, Donald H. McMillen, Chinese Communist Power and Policy in Xinjiang, 1949-1977, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7. From the entry Dushanzi
• An embargo is a restriction upon the transfer of specified goods, usually arms or petroleum products, to the embargoed State.2023, Terry D. Gill, Kinga Tibori-Szabó, The Use of Force and the International Legal System, page 284. From the entry embargoed
• A contaminant came up with the brine . . . rock oil . . . petroleum . . .2016, Michael Toia, FROG TONGUES: and Other Recollections of an Old Patriarch, →ISBN. From the entry Texas tea
• They are slow-moving and blubberous and thus were an abundant source of oil for a world not yet addicted to petroleum.2006, Arline and Sam Bleecker, "Holland American Has a Whale of a Program," Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep.. From the entry blubberous
• Petroleum is the most productive and capital-intensive industry while apparel is the least productive and least capital intensive.1999, Karen Parker, Albert Fishlow, Growing Apart: The Causes and Consequences of Global Wage Inequality. From the entry capital-intensive
• Harbor improvements are planned for nine major ports along China's coast; five are being improved to upgrade petroleum transport facilities.1976 March, JeNelle Matheson, Construction Equipment A Market Assessment for the People's Republic of China, U.S. Department of Commerce…. From the entry Ch'in-huang-tao
• As far as naphthogenesis is concerned, this hypothesis offers a reasonable explanation on how the first petroleum could have originated.1967, Bartholomew Nagy, Fundamental Aspects of Petroleum Geochemistry, page 338. From the entry naphthogenesis
• Separation of 1,2,4-trimethylcyclohexane and an isononane from a mid-continent petroleum.1948, United States. National Bureau of Standards, Publications of the National Bureau of Standards, page 77. From the entry isononane
• HS2 Ltd is also testing new off-grid generators powered by LPG (liquefied petroleum gas), in a bid to reduce carbon emissions during construction.2020 December 30, “Network News: Bidders sought for HS2 S&C contract”, in Rail, page 12. From the entry off-grid
• The region was also notorious for the pernicious infiltration of petroleum, called at the time Carbon Oil, which was a popular rather than scientific term.2020, “S. M. Kier., Petroleum, Pittsburgh”, in Virtual Museum of Historical Bottles and Glass. From the entry carbon oil
• Poskam (Zepu) County is 30 km to the east of Yarkand and is the petroleum and natural gas producing hub of southern Xinjiang.2019, Dagikhudo Dagiev, Carole Faucher, editors, Identity, History and Trans-Nationality in Central Asia (Central Asian Studies Series)…. From the entry Poskam
• Demand for nondurable goods, products like food, paper and petroleum, fell by 4.8 percent in December after an 8.7 percent fall in November.2009 February 6, The Associated Press, “Factory Orders Fall Again With No Clear End in Sight”, in New York Times. From the entry nondurable
• Autogas is the common name for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) when it is used as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles.2009, Frederic P Miller with Agnes F Vandome and John McBrewster, Autogas. From the entry autogas
• Wetlines are unprotected piping located beneath a cargo tank that is used for the bottom loading of gasoline or other petroleum products.2009, Concerns with Hazardous Materials Safety in the U.S.: Is PHMSA Performing Its Mission?, United States Congress House Committee on…. From the entry wetline
• WHY YOU GO THERE Huge fetishizable handbags, subtle jokes, hypnotic jacquard and luscious natural fibers perversely tricked out to look like cheap petroleum knockoffs.2007 August 2, Cintra Wilson, “Prada’s Sassy Sister Knows How to Party”, in New York Times. From the entry fetishizable
• Some starlings are drab, but the incandescent glossy and plum-colored starlings (43) with their petroleum sheen more than make up for it.2000, Melissa Shales, Fodor’s Exploring South Africa, 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: Fodor’s Travel Publications, →ISBN, page 273. From the entry plum-colored starling
• Although both the facies mentioned above may have formed in paleodeserts, the metallic minerals and the petroleum were introduced subsequently, after burial and during diagenesis.1985, Peter Laznicka, Empirical metallogeny: depositional environments, lithologic associations and metallic ores. From the entry paleodesert
• SOME GEOCHEMISTRY RESEARCH RESULTS by the Bureau of Mines indicate that petrolea hydrocarbons can be produced from simulated petroleum-bearing sediments by gamma irradiation.1956, Petro/chem Engineer, page 2. From the entry petrolea
• It is geologically un-evolved oil: the remnants of organic matter buried underground for millions of years but never sunk deep enough, nor long enough, to be transformed into petroleum.2014 April 16, Martin Lukacs, “Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy”, in The Guardian. From the entry oil shale
• Flare stacks are used in gas plants, petroleum refineries, and petrochemical plants to combust surplus hydrocarbons to produce combustion products that are neither toxic nor combustible.2013, David Brennan, “Identification of Waste in Utility Systems”, in Sustainable Process Engineering: Concepts, Strategies, Evaluation…. From the entry flare
• These aspects include the Lake Erie shoreline (especially Presque Isle), lake-effect weather, French Creek watershed, Devonian bedrock (especially related to petroleum history), viticulture, and glacial landforms.2008, Joseph F. Reese, “Earthscape Edinboro: An Earth Systems Based Educational Model to Connect Locals with Their Locale”, in 2008 Joint…. From the entry earthscape
• Other treaties concluded in the "honeymoon period" had to do with the Manchurian railroad, harbors of Port Arthur and Dairen, petroleum from Sinkiang, and exploitation of rare metals.1973 May 27, “Mao still embraces Stalin cult”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 20, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2. From the entry Port Arthur
• One contemporary description of Greek fire gives its formula as follows: "Take quick sulphur, dregs of wine, Persian gum, baked salt, pitch, petroleum, and common oil.1966 October 16, "The Fabulous Monarchs of Britain: Medieval Version of the Napalm Bomb", Chicago Tribune, Sect. 1A, p. 12. From the entry Persian gum
• In the Miao-li region, Ch'ao-tung headed an office for developing the petroleum resources discovered there.³⁸ Without much success during his tenure, the venture was later turned over to private entrepreneurs.1979, Johanna Menzel Meskill, A Chinese Pioneer Family, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 191. From the entry venture

Meaning of petroleum

1. noun A flammable liquid ranging in color from clear to very dark brown and black, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons, occurring naturally in deposits under the Earth's surface.

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How do you use petroleum in a sentence?

Petroleum is used as a noun. For example: “The best medium might be petroleum, liquified gas, or something of that nature.”

What is a short sentence with petroleum?

“Petroleum is largely insoluble in water.”

What does petroleum mean?

Petroleum means a flammable liquid ranging in color from clear to very dark brown and black, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons, occurring naturally in deposits under the Earth's surface.