Naphtha Shortages Having a Growing Impact in Japan (www.nippon.com)
from inari@piefed.zip to world@lemmy.world on 30 May 04:15
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A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip on 30 May 05:04 next collapse

Naphtha

Weird, I haven’t seen that word in ages. “Nafta” is a term for mineral oil products (often diesel) in many languages, including the one my parents were born in.

rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz on 30 May 05:34 next collapse

Petroleum industry kinda ran out of words for different distillate fractions and intermediates

who@feddit.org on 30 May 06:25 collapse

The word naphtha comes from Latin through Ancient Greek (νάφθα), derived from Middle Persian naft (“wet”, “naphtha”), the latter meaning of which was an assimilation from the Akkadian 𒉌𒆳𒊏 napṭu (see Semitic relatives such as Arabic نَفْط nafṭ [“petroleum”], Syriac ܢܰܦܬܳܐ naftā, and Hebrew נֵפְט neft, meaning petroleum)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naphtha

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip on 30 May 06:32 collapse

Ah, we have a wikibot now 👍

pHr34kY@lemmy.world on 30 May 12:03 collapse

I kinda wanna get hold of one of these limited edition chip packets.