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Meaning of carbon oil | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Carbon Oil.
    alt-of, uncountable
  2. Distilled petroleum used as lamp oil; early kerosene.
    Pennsylvania, Western, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“... lands near Tarentum, east of Pittsburgh, along the Allegheny River ... The region was also notorious for the pernicious infiltration of petroleum, called at the time Carbon Oil, which was a popular rather than scientific term.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

carbon oxide carbon oxychloride carbon oxysulfide carbon oxysulphide carbon paper carbon planet

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