• troglodyte_mignon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 hours ago

    “Naphta” immediately makes me think of “naphtaline” balls, which were used to repel moths from closets a few generations ago — it’s been banned since for being kinda carcinogenic. I’ve never seen it used, and didn’t know that it was made from petroleum.

  • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
    7·
    13 hours ago

    In China it’s 汽油 which basically means “gas oil”. It’s a verbatim translation of gasoline.

    • Unlearned9545@lemmy.world
      6·
      13 hours ago

      The first commercially available version was Gazoline named after somebody.

      Also, it’s the vapors that are combustable not the liquid.

      • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 hours ago

        No. The liquid is absolutely also combustible.

        In an internal combustion engine the liquid gasoline is injected into the cylinder as an aerosol (air and small liquid droplet mixture) and then compressed and burned.

        There would be a gas component as it has a high vapor pressure and has undergone compression which increases temperature, but it is still majority liquid when burned.

  • Grian@lemmy.world
    8·
    19 hours ago

    Algerian here, the most common word used to talk about “gas” here is actually the french word essence, since darja(what people actually speak) is just a weird amalgamate of french, Arabic and Berber that really don’t get along well.

    I know this Map just took the official languages, so I don’t wanna call it inacuratd, but just wanted to point this out.

  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
    66·
    2 days ago

    Naphtha and benzene are actually different chemicals, though…

    Yea yea I know they’re all hydrocarbons but it’s still funny.

  • Ulvain@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    Pretty big miss to not include Quebec in the “essence” category, or at least to do a striped pattern

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      I guess they just skipped countries that have a unique name for it

            • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
              17·
              2 days ago

              i see! thanks. so it’s basically the same word as gas-oline then?

                • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
                  2·
                  19 hours ago

                  I mean, sometimes China does do that. Per the other commenter diesel gets “kindling oil”, which might not involve mythical creatures but still is a neat thing to call it.

                • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
                  15·
                  2 days ago

                  no, it was mostly because the map is weird; the green part is not all “benzene”, it’s many different words rooted in the german “benzin”. so my assumption was that “other” languages probably have words based on the big, common words too, just not in a way the map creator understood. and you at least confirmed that for one country!

    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
      6·
      1 day ago

      I have never filled my car’s tank with “a gas,” I fill it with gas, which is short for gasoline. That abbreviation being a homonym for gas, a chemical phase, is merely an unfortunate coincidence.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        8·
        2 days ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute_natural_gas

        Substitute natural gas (SNG), or synthetic natural gas, is a fuel gas (predominantly methane, CH4) that can be produced from fossil fuels such as lignite coal, oil shale, or from biofuels (when it is named bio-SNG) or using electricity with power-to-gas systems.

        So we’ve got “gas” in the US (short for “gasoline”), which is a liquid. There’s liquified petroleum gas (LPG), which is also a liquid. And there’s synthetic natural gas.

        EDIT: Bonus: my understanding is that in Germany, an unqualified “gas” tends to refer to natural gas, which Germany is presently importing in liquid form (liquified natural gas, or LNG).

      • I'm Hiding 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
        5·
        2 days ago

        What’s wrong with LPG?

        Petrol is a liquid. When liquid petrol evaporates is becomes a gas. When gaseous petrol is compressed in a container as pictured it becomes a liquid until it is released and allowed to expand again, hence liquefied (compressed) petroleum gas.

        • aeiou_ckr@lemmy.world
          5·
          2 days ago

          Looking at the sign on the tank I am guessing this is USA and that would be gallons so it would be roughly 79,467 liters or 79,467,150 milliliters.

          • higgsboson@piefed.socialEnglish
            4·
            2 days ago

            It does look like 20K gallons by the size of it. That is about half as big as the large semi tankers that deliver gasoline.