petroleum

pe·tro·le·um  (p-trl-m)

n.

A thick, flammable, yellow-to-black mixture of gaseous, liquid, and solid hydrocarbons that occurs naturally beneath the earth's surface, can be separated into fractions including natural gas, gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, fuel and lubricating oils, paraffin wax, and asphalt and is used as raw material for a wide variety of derivative products.

---

[Middle English, from Medieval Latin petrleum : Latin petra, rock; see petrous + Latin leum, oil; see oil.]

---

petroleum [pəˈtrəʊlɪəm]

n

(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) a dark-coloured thick flammable crude oil occurring in sedimentary rocks around the Persian Gulf, in parts of North and South America, and below the North Sea, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons. Fractional distillation separates the crude oil into petrol, paraffin, diesel oil, lubricating oil, etc. Fuel oil, paraffin wax, asphalt, and carbon black are extracted from the residue

[from Medieval Latin, from Latin petra stone + oleum oil]

---

petroleum  (p-trl-m)

A thick, flammable, yellow-to-black mixture of gaseous, liquid, and solid hydrocarbons that occurs naturally beneath the Earth's surface. It can be separated into fractions including natural gas, gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, paraffin wax, asphalt, and fuel and lubricating oils, and is used as raw material for a wide variety of derivative products. It is believed to originate from the accumulated remains of fossil plants and animals, especially in shallow marine environments.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

petroleum - a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons crude, crude oil, fossil oil, rock oil, oil atomic number 6, carbon, C - an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds fossil fuel - fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen content oil - a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water resid, residual oil - oil products that remain after petroleum has been distilled

Translations

petroleum [pɪˈtrəʊlɪəm]

A. N → petróleo m

B. CPD petroleum jelly N → vaselina f
petroleum products NPL → derivados mpl del petróleo

petroleum [pəˈtrəʊliəm] n → pétrole m
petroleum jelly n → Vaseline® f
petrol gauge n [car] → jauge f d'essence

petroleum

n → Petroleum nt

---

petroleum:

petroleum ether

n → Petroläther m

petroleum jelly

n → Vaselin nt, → Vaseline f

petroleum refinery

n → Erdölraffinerie f

petroleum [pɪˈtrəʊlɪəm] n → petrolio

---

petroleum [pɪˈtrəʊlɪəm] n → petrolio