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GASOLINE BLENDING STOCK [1 record]

Record 1 2001-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • White Products (Petroleum)
DEF

Any of the stocks used to make commercial gasoline.

OBS

These include: natural gasoline, straight run gasoline, cracked gasoline, polymer gasoline, alkylate, and aromatics.

Key term(s)
  • blend stock

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits blancs (Pétrole)
DEF

Matière première de l'essence.

CONT

L'essence pour auto [...] est un mélange de «bases», obtenues chacune par un procédé différent : distillation directe du pétrole brut, transformation d'un produit plus lourd par cracking ou reforming, synthèse à partir de gaz de raffinerie par polymérisation ou alkylation.

CONT

[...] les carburants du commerce sont obtenus par mélange de deux ou plusieurs essences de base ayant des indices d'octane et des structures chimiques différentes.

Spanish

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