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Complex Mixtures > Fossil Fuels > Petroleum > Fuel Oils
... > Environment and Public Health > Environment > Energy-Generating Resources > Fossil Fuels > Petroleum > Fuel Oils
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Energy-Generating Resources > Fossil Fuels > Petroleum > Fuel Oils

Preferred term

Fuel Oils  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Scope note

  • Complex petroleum hydrocarbons consisting mainly of residues from crude oil distillation. These liquid products include heating oils, stove oils, and furnace oils and are burned to generate energy.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under PETROLEUM 1975-90; was in Cat J only 1975-81

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005648

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