KEROGEN

Meaning of KEROGEN in English

/ker"euh jeuhn, -jen'/ , n.

the bituminous matter in oil shale, from which shale oil is obtained by heating and distillation.

[ 1905-10; keró ( s ) wax + -GEN ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

KEROGEN — noun see: cerumen Date: 1906 bituminous material occurring in shale and yielding oil when heated
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
KEROGEN — or kerogen shales or kerogenites Complex mixture of compounds with large molecules containing mainly hydrogen and carbon but also oxygen, …
Английский словарь Британика
KEROGEN — ˈkerəjə̇n, -ˌjen noun ( -s ) Etymology: Greek kēro s wax + English -gen — more at cereus : bituminous …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
KEROGEN — noun Etymology: Greek kēros wax + English -gen — more at cerumen Date: 1906 : bituminous material occurring in shale …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
KEROGEN — [ker.o.gen] n [Gk keros wax + E -gen--more at cerumen] (1906): bituminous material occurring in shale and yielding oil when …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
KEROGEN — complex mixture of compounds with large molecules containing mainly hydrogen and carbon but also oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur. It is …
Britannica English vocabulary
KEROGEN — or kerogen shales or kerogenites Complex mixture of compounds with large molecules containing mainly hydrogen and carbon but also oxygen, …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
KEROGEN — кероген
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
KEROGEN — кероген - oil-shale kerogen
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
KEROGEN — кероген - oil-shale kerogen
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
KEROGEN — кероген
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
KEROGEN — кероген (органическое вещество битуминозных сланцев) - oil-shell kerogen
Большой Англо-Русский словарь по нефти и газу
KEROGEN — кероген
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
KEROGEN — Pronunciation: ' ker- ə -j ə n, ' ke-r ə - Function: noun Etymology: Greek k ē ros wax + …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
OIL-SHELL KEROGEN — кероген из горючего сланца
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
OIL-SHALE KEROGEN — кероген из горючего слан-ца
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
MARLSTONE — noun Date: 1756 a rock that consists of a mixture of clay materials and calcium carbonate and often contains kerogen
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SHALE OIL — Synthetic crude oil that is extracted from oil shale by pyrolysis, or destructive distillation. The oil obtained from oil shale …
Английский словарь Британика
SHALE — I Any of a group of fine-grained, laminated sedimentary rock s consisting of silt-and clay-sized particles. Shale constitutes roughly 60% …
Английский словарь Британика
OIL SHALE — Any fine-grained sedimentary rock that contains solid organic matter ( kerogen ) and yields significant quantities of oil when heated. …
Английский словарь Британика
KEROGENOUS — adjective see kerogen
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SAPROPEL — ˈsaprəˌpel noun ( -s ) Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary sapr- + -pel (from Greek pēlos clay, mud) — more at …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MARLSTONE — noun Date: 1756 : a rock that consists of a mixture of clay materials and calcium carbonate and often contains …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
MARLSTONE — [marl.stone] n (ca. 1839): a rock that consists of a mixture of clay materials and calcium carbonate and often contains …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SHALE OIL — synthetic crude oil that is extracted from oil shale by means of pyrolysis, or destructive distillation. In this process, intense …
Britannica English vocabulary
SHALE — any of a group of fine-grained, laminated sedimentary rocks consisting of silt- and clay-sized particles. Shale is the most abundant …
Britannica English vocabulary
OIL SHALE — any fine-grained sedimentary rock containing solid organic matter that yields significant quantities of oil when heated. This shale oil, commonly …
Britannica English vocabulary
HEAVY OIL AND TAR SAND — crude oils below 20 API gravity are usually considered to be heavy. The lighter conventional crudes are often waterflooded to …
Britannica English vocabulary
SHALE — n. Burgess Shale oil shale shale oil kerogen shales
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
SHALE OIL — Synthetic crude oil that is extracted from oil shale by pyrolysis, or destructive distillation. The oil obtained from oil shale …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
OIL SHALE — Any fine-grained sedimentary rock that contains solid organic matter ( kerogen ) and yields significant quantities of oil when heated. …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
ABELSONITE — General Information: Chemical Formula: Ni++C31H32N4 Composition: (Molecular Weight = 519.31 gm) Nickel 11.30 % Ni Hydrogen 6.21 % H Carbon …
Mineralogy Database English vocab

Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary

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