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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 gasplay

  Familiarity information: PETROCHEMICAL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PETROCHEMICAL (noun)


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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