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
Synonyms | Synonyms for Gasoline: gas | gasolene | petrol Related Terms | Find terms related to Gasoline: alcohol | avgas | benzine | briquette | burnable | butane | carbon | charcoal | coal | coal oil | coke | combustible | crude | crude oil | dope | electricity | ethane | ethanol | ethyl | ethyl gas | fireball | firing | flammable | flammable material | fossil oil | fuel | fuel additive | fuel dope | gas | gas carbon | heptane | hexane | high-octane gas | high-test | illuminant | illuminating gas | inflammable | inflammable material | isooctane | jet fuel | kerosene | lead-free gas | light source | low-lead gas | luminant | methane | methanol | motor oil | natural gas | octane | oil | paraffin | peat | pentane | petrol | petroleum | premium gas | propane | propellant | regular | rock oil | rocket fuel | turf See Also | combustible | combustible material | fuel | gasohol | hydrocarbon | leaded gasoline | napalm | unleaded gasoline Gasoline In Webster's Dictionary \Gas"o*line\ (? or ?; 104), n.
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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