naphtha

Any of several highly volatile, flammable liquid mixtures of hydrocarbons distilled from petroleum, coal tar, and natural gas and used as fuel, as solvents, and in making various chemicals.

Petroleum.

In ancient writers, a more fluid and volatile variety of asphalt or bitumen.

In modern use, an artificial volatile colorless liquid obtained from petroleum.

The complex mixture of volatile, liquid, inflammable hydrocarbons, occurring naturally, and usually called crude petroleum, mineral oil, or rock oil.

One of several volatile inflammable liquids obtained by the distillation of certain carbonaceous materials and resembling the naphtha from petroleum

common ethyl ether; — formerly called sulphuric ether. See Ether.

Naturally-occurring liquid petroleum.

Any of a wide variety of aliphatic or aromatic liquid hydrocarbon mixtures distilled from petroleum or coal tar, especially as used in solvents or petrol.

any of various volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures; used chiefly as solvents