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- noun Plural form of
petroleum .
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Examples
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Each lipstick has no mineral oils or petroleums and boasts only botanical ingredients.
Stefanie Michaels: Celebrities and Green Beauty Products - a Match Made in Hollywood 2009
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They reach many important trade agreement, including an "Oil for Porno" program in which Kazakhstan will provide U.S. and A. eight billion gallon of petroleums per year for equivalent number video cassettes of hard-core.
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They reach many important trade agreement, including an "Oil for Porno" program in which Kazakhstan will provide U.S. and A. eight billion gallon of petroleums per year for equivalent number video cassettes of hard-core.
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At present little is known as to how far many of the very cheap distillates and crude petroleums can be used as fuel for internal-combustion engines.
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There is an extensive bituminous limestone formation in Persia, containing 20 per cent. of bitumen, and the theory elaborated in the paper would account for bitumen and oil having been found in Canada and Tennessee embedded in limestone, which fact is cited by Mr. Peckham as favoring his belief that some petroleums are a "product of the decomposition of animal remains."
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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The method was carried out as above with four samples of American petroleums, Colorado oil from Florence,
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 Various
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Zaloziecki found, according to this method, in three samples of Galician petroleums, 4.6, 5.8 and 6.5 per cent., respectively, of proto-paraffine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 Various
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Investigations into the character of the various petroleums found throughout the United States, with a view to determining their calorific value, chemical composition, and the various methods whereby they may be made most economically available for more efficient use as power producers, through the various methods of combustion;
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Dr. Engler, in confirmation of the theory of the animal origin of some petroleums, obtained what might be described as petroleum (for it contained almost all the hydrocarbons present in the natural mineral oil) by distilling animal fats and oils under pressure.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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Nearly the same hydrocarbons, and others constituting a mixture approximating in composition to some natural petroleums, are produced when acetylene is passed over heated nickel (or certain other metals) obtained by the reduction of the finely divided oxide.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
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