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Gasolene  n.  See Gasoline.



Gasolene, Gasoline  n.  A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained mostly from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used as a fuel for most automobiles and for many other vehicles with internal combustion engines. The gasoline of commerce is typically blended with additives to improve its performance in internal combustion engines. Gasoline was also used in the early 1900's in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See Carburetor.
Synonyms: petrol(Brit).






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"Gasolene" Quotes from Famous Books



... in Goldite at three in the afternoon, dressed in prison clothes. He came on a freight wagon, the deliberate locomotion of which had provided ample time for his wrath to accumulate and simmer. His car was forty miles away, empty of gasolene, stripped of all useful accessories, and abandoned where the convicts had compelled him to drive them in ...
— The Furnace of Gold • Philip Verrill Mighels

... the Haunted Mesa and its mysteries, of the Subterranean River and its strange uses, of the value of gasolene and steam "in running the gauntlet," and you will feel that not even the ancient splendors of the Old World can furnish a better setting for romantic action than the ...
— From Farm House to the White House • William M. Thayer

... replied, soberly. "You don't think I'd waste gasolene to come down here to talk about any other ...
— The Desert Fiddler • William H. Hamby

... o'clock of a Saturday morning at the point on the coral embankment where the Potii Moorea was made fast, the gasolene-propelled cargo-boat which we had rented for the voyage. A hundred were gathered about a band of musicians in full swing when I appeared at the rendezvous on the prick of the hour. The bandsmen, all natives but one, wore garlands of purau, the scarlet hibiscus, and ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

... two-seater aircraft awaiting their coming. Quite a crowd stood around, and made guesses concerning the possible reason for the captain's order that this plane should be made ready for a journey, with enough supplies of gasolene and oil aboard ...
— Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines - The German Spy's Secret • Charles Amory Beach


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