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Gasolene

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of gasoline. alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually

    "REFINED COLZA, GASOLENE, PETROLENE, and all Oils suitable for Paraffin and other Lamps."

  2. 2
    a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines wordnet

Etymology

From Cazeline (possibly influenced by Gazeline, the name of an Irish copy), a brand of petroleum-derived lighting oil, from the surname of the man who first marketed it in 1862, John Cassell, and the suffix –eline, from Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “oil, olive oil”), from ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”). Gasolene is found from 1863, and gasoline from 1864.

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