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Meanings of crude petroleum in English

Crude oil.

        Usage of crude petroleum in English
        1
        Wurtz experimented with crude petroleum in a reheating furnace at Jersey City.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885
        2
        Possibly you have crude petroleum for soup and whipped salad-oil for dessert.
        The House of a Thousand Candles
        3
        Long, hair-raising, and Spanish-scalping sentences rolled from his lips like crude petroleum from a five-inch pipe.
        Bamboo Tales
        4
        Its refineries upgrade the crude petroleum into various products and over 300 grades of lubricants, specialties and greases.
        Reuters
        5
        The fuels to be considered are anthracite and bituminous coals, crude petroleum, and coal, generator and water gases.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885
        6
        Obtain specimens of crude petroleum, naphtha, refined oil, aniline dye, paraffine, and carbolic acid; note the properties of each.
        Commercial Geography / A Book for High Schools, Commercial Cours...
        7
        How much of the production of crude petroleum is in the hands of the trust it is hard to say.
        Monopolies and the People
        8
        The crude petroleum of Baku yields a lower percentage of kerosene than the American wells, but it contains more lubricating oil.
        Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
        9
        Canadian crude petroleum is of a black color, and possesses a very disagreeable odor, due to the presence of sulphur compounds.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887
        10
        The Standard Oil Company has a small refinery across the bay, in which crude petroleum brought from the United States is refined.
        The Story of the Philippines / Natural Riches, Industrial Resour...
        11
        The hole was piped, and then the stream of crude petroleum was turned into a channel whence it flowed into a reservoir.
        Jack Ranger's Western Trip; Or, from Boarding School to Ranch an...
        12
        The cheapest of oils, crude petroleum, if applied to the pool or marsh in which mosquitoes breed, will almost completely exterminate them.
        Preventable Diseases
        13
        Anyone who talked about sectors where the product was as clunky and mundane as copper, corn, and crude petroleum, was considered behind the times.
        Reuters
        14
        A great many of the brick manufacturers here and throughout the Northwest are beginning to use crude petroleum as a substitute for soft coal.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892
        15
        Rather, it was oil-crudepetroleum-thatdrove the vessel along.
        The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets; Or, The Fall of the G...
        16
        "They extract it from crude petroleum, don't they?"
        The Intriguers
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