naphtha
pronunciation
How to pronounce naphtha in British English:
UK [ˈnæfθə]
How to pronounce naphtha in American English:
US [ˈnæfθə, ˈnæp-]
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- Noun:
- any of various volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures; used chiefly as solvents
Word Origin
- naphtha (n.)
- inflammable liquid distilled from petroleum, 1570s, from Latin, from Greek naphtha "bitumen," perhaps from Persian neft "pitch," or Aramaic naphta, nephta, but these could as well be from Greek. In Middle English as napte (late 14c.), from Old French napte, but the modern word is a re-introduction.
Example
- 1. Destocking in china since the summer amid fears about global demand has also put pressure on naphtha prices .
- 2. The prices of industrial fuels and feedstocks such as naphtha are not capped , yet demand for them is also growing strongly .
- 3. One byproduct he worked with was coal tar , which , when distilled , produced naphtha .
- 4. Naphtha , the benchmark petrochemicals feedstock , has seen a clear fall-off in demand in china , the world 's second-largest consumer and producer of petrochemicals products .
- 5. They pointed out that the price of benzene , a petrochemical derived from naphtha used for plastics and dyes , fell last week below the cost of naphtha for the first time since the 1980s , as demand vanished .