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  • noun petrochemistry A heavy, low-quality fuel oil, used in generating plants and similar applications, or broken down to produce diesel.

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Examples

  • They lowered the price of mazut for heating, for example.

    Exiled Syrian: 'We Don't Want a Violent Revolution' 2011

  • Roughly half of that production was semirefined into mazut, or heavy fuel oil, for use in electrical power plants, factory boilers, and the like.

    Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

  • As we have already seen, thirty-eight percent goes for electrical and other forms of power generation, and fortunately much of this is mazut.

    Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

  • The company produces high quality diesel, gasoline and export grade mazut (fuel oil) from crude oil.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • However, many people who live in condominiums, have already constructed small stoves in their apartments and buying coal, and / or mazut (heavy, low quality fuel oil) in order to heat their homes, in case the central heating system fails to provide the required heat.

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  • The population was warned to begin preparing for autumn and winter electricity cuts by purchasing coal and mazut.

    Ferghana.Ru news agency 2009

  • But does it mean that there left no chance to settle the "water problem" with Bishkek, which counted upon price preferences for coal and mazut delivery from their northern neighbor, in exchange for irrigation regulation.

    Ferghana.Ru news agency 2009

  • But does it mean that there left no chance to settle the "water problem" with Bishkek, which counted upon price preferences for coal and mazut delivery from their northern neighbor, in exchange for irrigation regulation.

    Ferghana.Ru news agency 2009

  • In order to prevent the power station turbines from stopping, they had to limit electricity supply across the country and even lay responsibility for power generation for the northern Kyrgyzstan to the Bishkek heat station, which was already running out of gas, coal and mazut.

    Ferghana.Ru news agency 2009

  • Left with not enough essential resources from the neighbors (electricity, gas, coal and mazut for the heat stations, boiler rooms and industrial productions), Kyrgyzstan made a desperate attempt to meet the needs of its economy by switching the Toktogul reservoir from the irrigation mode to the energy generation mode.

    Ferghana.Ru news agency 2009

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