Diesel
Diesel noun - An internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil.
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Petrol
Petrol noun - A volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines.
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Diesel and petrol are semantically related in motor fuel topic. You can use "Diesel" instead a noun "Petrol", if it concerns topics such as unleaded.
Nearby Words: petrology, petrolic
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- So a vehicle which uses technology which has been around since the dawn of time, like wheels, wouldn't count because nothing has ever replaced the wheel, but a new, renewable fuel which turned out to be more efficient in a steam engine rather than a petrol or diesel engine would.
Source: Retro Upgrade - While this helped the food-shortages, it didn't solve the fuel-shortages as the Soviets used diesel and not petrol.
Source: Easy Logistics - Attempting to 'water down' their petrol with diesel just wrecked their engines, even when the captured fuel wasn't sabotaged.
Source: Easy Logistics
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