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PETROCHEMICAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does petrochemical mean?
• PETROCHEMICAL (noun)
The noun PETROCHEMICAL has 1 sense:
1. any compound obtained from petroleum or natural gas
Familiarity information: PETROCHEMICAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any compound obtained from petroleum or natural gas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("petrochemical" is a kind of...):
organic compound (any compound of carbon and another element or a radical)
Context examples
Nickel sulfide is used in lithium batteries, as a catalyst in the petrochemical industry and is used in the manufacture of silicate-oxide nickel ores.
(Nickel Sulfide, NCI Thesaurus)
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