natural gas

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natural gas 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a combustible mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons that accumulates in porous sedimentary rocks, especially those yielding petroleum, consisting usually of over 80 percent methane together with minor amounts of ethane, propane, butane, nitrogen, and, sometimes, helium: used as a fuel and to make carbon black, acetylene, and synthesis gas.

natural gas 近义词

natural gas

等同于 petroleum

更多natural gas例句

  1. The company is in the process of re-powering an existing coal plant to run on a combination of natural gas and hydrogen by 2025.
  2. He said Virginians’ overall bills run higher because they use more electricity than other states, like those in New England that rely on natural gas or oil for heat.
  3. The cost of increasing capacity was $41 for coal and $28 for natural gas.
  4. That’s the argument increasingly put forth by climate scientists and activists looking to put an end to the continued extraction of coal, oil, and natural gas.
  5. The city is already halfway there with the creation of San Diego Community Power, which is taking over SDG&E’s old job of selecting and purchasing the kind of power San Diego runs on, like solar or natural gas.
  6. Security officials told Agence France-Presse that the gas station manager said he had recognized the two men.
  7. Unconfirmed reports in the French media claimed that the brothers were spotted at a gas station in northern France on Thursday.
  8. In 2007 he said he had discovered a cure for AIDS using natural herbs.
  9. Total oil production figures include crude oil, natural gas liquids, and other liquid energy products.
  10. On top of oil, the United States produces significantly more natural gas than Saudi Arabia.
  11. It is full of poetic feeling, and the flesh tints are unusually natural.
  12. The place was well defended by earthworks and natural parapets, and for several hours the issue of the contest was doubtful.
  13. In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.
  14. Whatever the species, it is well to imitate the natural conditions as much as possible in the way of soil.
  15. Piedmont alone vies with her, and is improving far more rapidly, but Lombardy has great natural capacities peculiarly her own.