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Definition: Naphtha |
NaphthaNoun1. Any of various volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures; used chiefly as solvents. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "naphtha" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Naphtha \Naph"tha\, noun. [Latin expression naphtha, Greek fr.Ar. nafth, nifth.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemical Industry | A feedstock destined for the petrochemical industry(e. g. ethylene manufacture or aromatics production). Naphtha comprises material in the 30°C and 210°C distillation range or part of this range. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Naphtha The drug used by Mede'a for anointing the wedding robe of Glauce, daughter of King Creon, whereby she was burnt to death on the morning of her marriage with Jason. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. An archaic term for liquid petroleum b. Designates those hydrocarbons of the lowest boiling point (under 250 degrees C) that are liquid at standard conditions, but easily vaporize andbecome flammable. They are used as cleaners and solvents. (references) |
Weather | A generic term applied to a petroleum fraction with an approximate boiling range between 122 and 400 degrees Fahrenheit. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It is obtained from petroleum refineries as the portion of the distillate which is intermediate between the lighter gasoline and the heavier benzene. Naphtha has a specific gravity of about 0.7.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Naphtha."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fuel | Oil, petroleum, gasoline, high octane gasoline, nitromethane, petrol, gas, juice, gasohol, alcohol, ethanol, methanol, fuel oil, kerosene, jet fuel, heating oil, number oil, number oil, naphtha; rocket fuel, high specific impulse fuel, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, lox. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Naphtha |
| English words defined with "naphtha": Collidine, cracking ♦ Iridoline ♦ Japan black ♦ mineral oil ♦ Naphtha vitrioli, Naphthalize ♦ Picoline ♦ rubber cement ♦ Seneca eil. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "naphtha": assembler, rubber footwear ♦ BOOTMAKER, HAND ♦ chief operator, chief operator, hydroformer, CONSTRUCTION-EQUIPMENT-MECHANIC HELPER ♦ extraction supervisor, EXTRACTOR-PLANT OPERATOR ♦ FINISHER, HAND, fractionation operator, head, fractionation supervisor ♦ MACHINE-MADE-SHOE UNIT WORKER, MAKING-LINE WORKER ♦ naphtha gas, NAPHTHA-WASHING-SYSTEM OPERATOR ♦ Petrochemical feedstock ♦ Special naphtha, Stoddard solvent, Stoddard's dry-cleaning solvent, SUPERVISOR, PURIFICATION ♦ TRACTOR-MECHANIC HELPER ♦ Unfinished oils ♦ varnish blender, varnish cooker, VARNISH MAKER, varnish melter. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Naphtha" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (naphtha). |
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Business | This industrial area located in Yulin county boasts a privately-owned Naphtha cracker which gives middle stream companies close proximity to their needed feedstocks. (references) | |
The newest petrochemical industrial area is the Yun-Lin Offshore Industrial Zone located in Mai Liao, where Taiwan's first privately owned Naphtha Cracker is located. (references) | ||
Formosa Plastics Group and their affiliates are the major investors in the Mai Liao area with a whopping USD 13.89 billion in a naphtha cracker facility and related projects. (references) | ||
Economic History | Bahrain | It also markets liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), naphtha, gasoline, kerosene, aviation fuel, diesel oil, heavy lube distillate, fuel oil and asphalt produced at BAPCO's refinery. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Naphtha" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Naphtha" is used about 25 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 25 | 69,787 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "naphtha": naphtha vitrioli ♦ wood naphtha. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
naphtha | 35 |
naphtha p vm | 3 |
fels naphtha | 3 |
naphtha solvent | 2 |
msds naphtha | 2 |
naphtha price | 2 |
naphtha petroleum | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "naphtha"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | naftë (oil, oil fuel, petroleum, rock oil, shale oil), vajguri (coal oil, kerosene, mineral oil, oil, paraffin, petroleum, refined petroleum, rock oil), solvent. (various references) | |
Arabic | النفط (petroleum). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | суров нефт (crude), газ (fluid, gas, gauze, kerosene, oil, petrol, petroleum, wind), нафта (petrol, petroleum). (various references) | |
Chinese | 挥发油. (various references) | |
Czech | nafta (crude, oil, oil fuel). (various references) | |
Danish | mineralolie (mineral naphtha, mineral oil, petroleum, petroleum fluid, rock oil), lugtfri petroleum (deodorized naphtha, deodorized oil). (various references) | |
Dutch | petroleum (burning oil, gasoline, kerosene, lamp oil, mineral naphtha, naphta, paraffin oil, paraffin-oil, petrol, petroleum, rock oil, sprit), ontgeurde nafta (deodorized naphtha), geïsomeriseerde-naftafractioneertoren (isomerized naphtha fractionator). (various references) | |
Farsi | نفتا, بنزین سنگین . (various references) | |
Finnish | nafta (petroleum), öljy (crude oil, crude petroleum, natural oil, oil, petroleum). (various references) | |
French | naphte, naphta. (various references) | |
German | naphtha. (various references) | |
Greek | νέφτι (turpentine), νέφθα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | könnyûbenzin. (various references) | |
Italian | nafta (diesel oil, oil). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ナパー 弾 (big-headed, caller ID, closest to pin, egotist, knee, knee-high socks, knee-length, knowledge, knowledge engineering, licence plate, NAFTA, Namibia, Nanking, Napa Valley, napalm bomb, Naphthalin, napkin, Naples, napoleon, napolitain, narcism, Narcisse, narcissism, narcissist, narcist, narodniki, narration, narrator, narrow silhouette, narrow-band, narrowcasting, National Leaque, navigator, Navstar, near pin, near-miss, neat, need, needle, needs, Nicaragua, nice, Nichrome, Nielsen, niobium, nonsense, nonsense comedy, nourish, nourishing cream, nourishment, number, number display, number eight, number one, number plate, numbering, numbering machine, nymphe, stuck-up person). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ナフサ , ナフタ (NAFTA). (various references) | |
Korean | 나"다. (various references) | |
Manx | nafthey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aphthanay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | nuca (cervix, Hindi, nape, scruff), nafta (crude oil, naphthalene). (various references) | |
Romanian | petrol (crude oil, oil, paraffin oil, petroleum), pãcurã (oil fuel, tar), benzinã grea, ţiţei (oil, oil fuel, petroleum, rock oil, rock-tar). (various references) | |
Russian | гарное масло, нефть (mineral oil, oil, pet petroleum, petrol, petroleum, rock-oil), нафта, лигроин (naptha). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nafta (oil, petroleum). (various references) | |
Spanish | nafta (petrol). (various references) | |
Swedish | nafta (crude oil). (various references) | |
Thai | น้ำมันเชื้อเพลิงชนิ"หนึ่งซึ่งติ"ไฟไ"้ง่ายมาก. (various references) | |
Turkish | neft. (various references) | |
Ukranian | лігроїн. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ligroin dầu mỏ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | naphtha. (various references) |
| Persian | 800-Modern | neft. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "naphtha": naphthalene, naphthalenes, naphthas. (additional references) | |
Words containing "naphtha": methylnaphthalene, methylnaphthalenes. (additional references) | |
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"Naphtha" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aphtha, aphthae, Naffah, Nafthe, Nahdha, Napata, naphta, Naphtali, naphthol, naptha, napthol, Nashta. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "naphtha" (pronounced 'Naph"tha'): Acantha, Aphtha, Bertha, maltha, Spatha, Sterelmintha. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-h-h-n-p-t" | |
-1 letter: aphtha. | |
-3 letters: anta, atap, haha, hant, hath, pant, path, phat, tapa, than. | |
-4 letters: aah, aha, ana, ant, apt, hah, hap, hat, nah, nap, nth, pah, pan, pat, pht, tan, tap. | |
-5 letters: aa, ah, an, at, ha, na, pa, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-h-h-n-p-t" | |
+1 letter: naphthas. | |
+2 letters: hypanthia. | |
+4 letters: naphthalene. | |
+5 letters: naphthalenes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 61 70 68 74 68 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .- .--. .... - .... .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100001 01110000 01101000 01110100 01101000 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N a p h t h a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0061 0070 0068 0074 0068 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48678274867467 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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