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heavy oil
noun
- a hydrocarbon mixture, heavier than water, distilled from coal tar
Example Sentences
Despite claims of being a climate leader and steward of endangered southern resident orcas, the Canadian government quickly purchased the incomplete heavy oil pipeline for $3.3 billion, insisting it was in the national interest.
The remaining heavy oil tends to sink, making cleanup unlikely in the Salish Sea’s deep straits.
In Japan, exports fell in August for a second straight month, weighed by declines in China's demand for steel and heavy oil and stoking fears of a downturn in the face of elevated global interest rates.
The crude is a better fit for Cuba's aging refineries than Venezuela's heavy oil.
The World Food Programme told the BBC on Thursday that the situation was a "public health crisis in the making" due to pollution including sewage, heavy oil and pesticides mixed into floodwater.
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