Petroleum - Law Dictionary Search Results
Illuminant
That which illuminates or affords light as gas and petroleum are illuminants
Mitis casting
from 005 to 01 per cent of aluminum is added to lower the melting point usually in a petroleum furnace keeping the molten metal at the bubbling point until it becomes quiet and then pouring the molten
Petroline
A paraffin obtained from petroleum from Rangoon in India and practically identical with ordinary paraffin
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Naphtha
The complex mixture of volatile liquid inflammable hydrocarbons occurring naturally and usually called crude petroleum mineral oil or rock oil
natural gas
The combustible gas found associated with petroleum deposits and also in other geological formations comprised predominantly of methane plus variable other constitutents It is an
Octonaphthene
A colorless liquid hydrocarbon of the octylene series occurring in Caucasian petroleum
oil patch
A geographical region from which petroleum is extracted
oil slick
A layer of oil floating on water usually petroleum or fuel oil which has leaked from a ship
oil spill
A layer of oil floating on water or covering the shoreline of a body of water usually petroleum which has leaked from an oil tanker
Paraffin
A white waxy substance resembling spermaceti tasteless and odorless and obtained from coal tar wood tar petroleum etc by distillation It is used in candles as a sealing agent such as in canning of preserves
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