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fuel oil
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fuel oil [′fyül ‚oil]
(materials)
A liquid product burned to generate heat, exclusive of oils with a flash point below 100°F (38°C); includes heating oils, stove oils, furnace oils, bunker fuel oils.


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If summer does not bring any robust demand, and natural events such as hurricanes are not a factor, then the next heating season will likely be marked by large inventories of natural gas and residual fuel oil.
Technicians on Friday were drying the shuttle's rocket engines and their associated plumbing to purge them of residual fuel and liquid oxygen before installation of an aerodynamic tailcone over the exhaust nozzles.
Also be sure to inspect fuel return lines, another feature unique to diesel engines, which contain heated residual fuel that is readily combustible.
 
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