Voorbeelden van petroleum

• Petrol and diesel are produced from petroleum.

• Products which are petroleum-based are highly inflammable.

• Petroleum is used to produce fuel for vehicles.

• 'Vaseline' is the commercial name for petroleum jelly.

• Petroleum jelly can be used to soothe and prevent nappy rash.

• Over two-thirds of urban air pollution is generated by transportation, while virtually all the remainder are due to other petroleum-using activities.

• There is a high dependence on imported petroleum products, which make up 6% of total imports.

• The darkly stained surface soil in the depot area also suggests that other petroleum products were spilled at the site.

• Many economies are dominated by mining, petroleum, or other industrial commodity production, others receive more income in foreign aid than in corporate or income taxes.

• The resulting balance of payments crisis was exacerbated by the government's delay in adjusting petroleum prices and electricity rates.

• Once commercialized fuel markets exist, petroleum fuels can get their breakthrough if they can compete on price with fuelwood.

• There was a long list of antitrust offences of which the petroleum companies were purportedly guilty, and one of these was exchange agreements.

• It is the realm of bioremediation where the greatest advances are being made for treating petroleum-contaminated soils in cold regions.

• Given the large quantity of petroleum-contaminated soil present, remediation processes that can be carried out in situ are likely to be the preferable clean-up options.

• If the nuclear status was unclear, the oocytes were mounted on slides that had been prepared with petroleum jelly/paraffin wax supporting droplets.

• Unused tanks of petroleum, materials containing asbestos, chemicals for experimentation, and thousands of other items were left behind.

• Some of these sites are where the storage or use of petroleum hydrocarbons was likely to have been common when the station was inhabited.

• Sampling of soil and water for an assessment of contamination by heavy metals and petroleum hydrocarbons was also carried out.

• The residual total petroleum hydrocarbons present at the site were unresolved complex material.

• The editors are both experienced petroleum geologists, who have worked hard to ensure an even standard of treatment.