English
Noun
liquefied petroleum gas (countable and uncountable, plural liquefied petroleum gases)
- (petrochemistry) A mixture of propane and butane with traces of some other gases, which is kept in a liquid state at high pressure in metal bottles, and used as a source of gas for cooking, heating and as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles.
- Synonyms: LPG, autogas (UK, Europe, Australia)
- Near-synonym: propane (loosely synonymous in US)
Translations
LPG
- Catalan: gas liquat del petroli m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 液化石油氣 / 液化石油气 (zh) (yèhuà shíyóuqì)
- Finnish: nestekaasu (fi)
- French: gaz de pétrole liquéfié (fr) m
- German: Flüssiggas (de) n
- Hungarian: propán-bután gáz, PB-gáz, cseppfolyós gáz, autógáz
- Japanese: 液化石油ガス (ja) (ekika sekiyu gasu)
- Kazakh: сұйытылған газ (sūiytylğan gaz)
- Korean: 액화석유가스 (aekhwaseogyugaseu)
- Portuguese: gás liquefeito de petróleo m
- Romanian: gaz de petrol lichid n, gaz de sondă lichid n
- Russian: сжи́женный углеводоро́дный газ m (sžížennyj uglevodoródnyj gaz)
- Swedish: gasol (sv) c
- Vietnamese: khí dầu mỏ hóa lỏng (vi)
- Welsh: nwy petroliwm hylifol m
- Xibe: ᠠᡞᠯ
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