English word senses marked with topical category "Petrochemistry"

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• APG (Proper name) Abbreviation of Associated Petroleum Gas.
• BTX (Noun) Initialism of (mixture of) benzene, toluene, and xylenes.
• Brown HT (Noun) A brown synthetic coal tar diazo dye.
• CDU (Noun) Initialism of crude distillation unit.
• CNG (Noun) Initialism of compressed natural gas.
• DAO (Noun) Initialism of de-asphalted oil, a crude oil refinery process stream.
• LNG (Noun) Initialism of liquefied natural gas.
• LPG (Noun) Initialism of liquefied petroleum gas.
• NG (Noun) Initialism of natural gas.
• PRMS (Proper name) Initialism of Petroleum Resources Management System.
• aromatization (Noun) The conversion of aliphatic components of petroleum into aromatic compounds as part of the refining process.
• asphaltane (Noun) polyaromatic compounds left from distillation of crude oil that are insoluble in pentane.
• bituminosulfonate (Noun) An anion found in ammonium bituminosulfonate (ichthammol), obtained by dry distillation of oil shale and subsequent sulfonation.
• bunker fuel (Noun) A type of extremely viscous, heavy fuel oil primarily used by large oceangoing ships.
• bunker oil (Noun) Synonym of bunker fuel.
• carbon black (Noun) A fine black powder of amorphous carbon manufactured by the incomplete combustion of natural gas or oil, and used as a pigment in the manufacture of ink and paint. Used as a filler in rubber and rubber-like polymers, it helps prevent deterioration by ultraviolet rays.
• coal gas (Noun) The poisonous gas, used domestically for cooking etc and formerly for lighting, prepared by heating coal with steam (gasification); it is a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide; sometimes synonymous with synthesis gas or town gas.
• coal tar (Noun) A black, viscous tar made by the destructive distillation of coal (to make coke and town gas); it contains a great number of compounds including hydrocarbons and phenols; used in the preparation of medicinal soap and shampoo, and industrially for the manufacture of many products.
• cosmoline (Noun) A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffins.
• cracking (Noun) The thermal decomposition of a substance, especially that of crude petroleum in order to produce petrol / gasoline.
• crude oil (Noun) Unrefined oil; as it is found underground, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons.
• cut (Noun) The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
• cymogene (Noun) A highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure from the first products of the distillation of petroleum; used for producing low temperatures.
• distillation (Noun) The separation of more volatile parts of a substance from less volatile ones by evaporation and condensation.; Separation of petroleum into specific hydrocarbon groups; fractionation.
• dry (Adjective) Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
• dyneme (Noun) Polyethylene with a very high molecular weight.
• indane (Noun) A bicyclic hydrocarbon consisting of a benzene ring fused to that of cyclopentane; it, and its derivatives, are found in petroleum
• light oil (Noun) The oily product, lighter than water, forming the chief part of the first distillate of coal tar, and consisting largely of benzene and toluene.
• liquefied natural gas (Noun) Natural gas that has been cooled and compressed to liquid form for transport and storage.
• liquefied petroleum gas (Noun) A mixture of propane and butane with traces of some other gases, which is kept in a liquid state at high pressure in metal bottles, and used as a source of gas for cooking, heating and as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles.
• mazut (Noun) A heavy, low-quality fuel oil, used in generating plants and similar applications, or broken down to produce diesel.
• naphtha (Noun) Any of a wide variety of aliphatic or aromatic liquid hydrocarbon mixtures distilled from petroleum or coal tar, especially as used in solvents or petrol.
• narrow-cut (Adjective) Composed of moderately-heavy hydrocarbons with boiling points in the kerosene range, without a significant proportion of lighter, gasoline-type hydrocarbons; Jet A is an example of a fuel of this type.
• oil company (Noun) A company that is dedicated to trade or exploitation of petroleum/oil. (This entry is a translation hub.)
• paraffin (Noun) Any member of the alkane hydrocarbons.
• petrochemical (Noun) Any compound derived from petroleum or natural gas.
• petrochemistry (Noun) The branch of chemistry that deals with petroleum, natural gas and their derivatives.
• petroleum (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.
• polyethylene (Noun) A polymer consisting of many ethylene monomers bonded together; used for kitchenware, containers etc.
• reformate (Noun) The product of a hydrocarbon reforming process; an intermediate in the production of fuels such as gasoline.
• reformer (Noun) A device used to convert petroleum refinery naphthas, typically having low octane ratings, into high-octane liquid products called reformates.
• soot (Noun) Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
• syngas (Noun) Synthesis gas or coal gas.
• synthesis gas (Noun) The gas obtained by heating coal and steam; coal gas.
• wax point (Noun) The temperature below which a hydrocarbon fuel such as kerosene ceases to flow freely due to components of the fuel freezing into solid waxes.
• wide-cut (Adjective) Composed of a mixture of hydrocarbons with a wide range of boiling points, including both moderately-heavy, higher-boiling kerosene-type molecules and lighter, lower-boiling, more-volatile gasoline-type molecules; Jet B or JP-4 is a fuel of this type.

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