Petroleum in example sentence

The Industrial Revolution turned steel and coal into strategic goods, and struggles over oil dominated much of the twentieth century, including during World War I, when the loss of Romanian petroleum contributed to the German collapse on the Western Front in 1918.

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We make this epinephrine in a factory by stitching together smaller molecules that come mostly from petroleum.

So nature's molecules are everywhere, including the ones that have decomposed into these black mixtures that we call petroleum.

Coal and natural gas are cheaper than solar and wind, and petroleum is cheaper than biofuels.

OK, if you put steam into coal fields or petroleum fields that have been running for decades, you can get a really substantial increase, like an eight-fold increase, in your output.

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