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: any of various volatile often flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures used chiefly as solvents and diluents
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Showing illustrative, colorful scenes of Neanderthals fashioning tools with sticky tar, bitumen mortar in Mesopotamian structures, Chinese naphtha stoves, and eventually the US automotive industry, the work reveals the ways oil has permeated human production across cultures.
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Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 2 Aug. 2024
The 74,000 deadweight-tons capacity panamax tanker Hafnia Nile was carrying about 300,000 barrels of naphtha, according to ship-tracking data from Kpler and LSEG.
—Reuters, NBC News, 19 July 2024
Carbon dioxide Water Instead, Infinium combines that CO2 with hydrogen in a series of steel tanks that heat the gases, cool them, change their pressure, and set off a chain of chemical reactions that turns them into a mixture of diesel and naphtha, which is used in making plastic.
—Emily Wright, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
Factories elsewhere will turn the naphtha into household goods.
—Emily Wright, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
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Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 2 Aug. 2024
The 74,000 deadweight-tons capacity panamax tanker Hafnia Nile was carrying about 300,000 barrels of naphtha, according to ship-tracking data from Kpler and LSEG.
—Reuters, NBC News, 19 July 2024
Carbon dioxide Water Instead, Infinium combines that CO2 with hydrogen in a series of steel tanks that heat the gases, cool them, change their pressure, and set off a chain of chemical reactions that turns them into a mixture of diesel and naphtha, which is used in making plastic.
—Emily Wright, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
Factories elsewhere will turn the naphtha into household goods.
—Emily Wright, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
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“Naphtha.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/naphtha. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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