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BIOFUEL

Specialty Definition: BIOFUEL

DomainDefinition

Chemical Industry

Biofuels are, as the name implies, renewable energy sources from living things; they are to be distinguished from fossil fuels which are also of biological origin but which are non-renew able(Energy primer, p. 106). Source: European Union. (references)

Weather

Gas or liquid fuel made from plant material (biomass) . Includes wood, wood waste, wood liquors, peat, railroad ties, wood sludge, spent sulfite liquors,agricultural waste, straw, tires, fish oils, tall oil, sludge waste, waste alcohol, municipal solid waste, landfill gases, other waste, and ethanol blended into motor gasoline. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Biofuel

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Biofuel is any gas or liquid fuel that derives either from recently living organisms or their metabolic byproducts, such as manure from cows. It is a renewable energy, unlike nuclearfossil sources (petroleum, coal and nuclear energy).

Classes of Biofuels

See also: Environmental economics.

External links

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Biofuel."

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Crosswords: BIOFUEL

Specialty definitions using "BIOFUEL": Bioelectric Energy Sources. (references)

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Usage Frequency: BIOFUEL

"BIOFUEL" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BIOFUEL" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BIOFUEL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

biofuel

25

biofuel cell

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BIOFUEL

Language Translations for "BIOFUEL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

biomasse/braendstoffer (biofuels, biomass fuel, biomass fuels). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

biobrandstoffen (biofuels, biomass fuel, biomass fuels). (various references)

   

French

  

biocombustibles et biocarburants (biofuels, biomass fuel, biomass fuels), biocombustible (biofuels, biomass fuel, biomass fuels), biocarburant (biofuels, biomass fuel, biomass fuels, liquids from biomass). (various references)

   

German

  

Biokraftstoffe (biofuels, biomass fuel, biomass fuels), Biobrennstoffe (biofuels, biomass fuel, biomass fuels). (various references)

   

Italian

  

biocombustibili (biofuels, biomass fuel, biomass fuels), combustibili biologici (biofuels, biomass fuel, biomass fuels). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iofuelbay

   

Portuguese

  

biocombustivel (biofuels, biomass fuel, biomass fuels). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

biocombustible (biofuels, biomass fuel, biomass fuels). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BIOFUEL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-f-i-l-o-u"

-1 letter: befoul, foible.

-2 letters: boule, louie, obeli.

-3 letters: bile, blue, boil, bole, file, filo, floe, flub, flue, foil, foul, fuel, lief, lieu, life, lobe, lube.

-4 letters: bel, bio, elf, feu, fib, fie, fil, flu, fob, foe, fou, fub, lei, leu, lib, lie, lob, obe, obi, oil, ole.

-5 letters: be, bi, bo, ef, el, if, li, lo.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-f-i-l-o-u"
 

+2 letters: befouling.

 

+4 letters: furbelowing, neurofibril.

 

+5 letters: neurofibrils, tibiofibulae, unforgivable, unmodifiable, unprofitable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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