About The Word Gasoline
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Gasoline
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What's The Definition Of Gasoline?
[n] a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
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A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained
from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous
coal. It is used in making air gas, and in giving
illuminating power to water gas. See {Carburetor}.
\Gas"o*line\, or Gasolene engine \Gas"o*lene, en"gine\ . (Mach.) A kind of internal-combustion engine; -- in British countries called usually {petrol engine}. |
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