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What Gasoline is called around the World (infosec.pub)

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not gonna lie, that’s an odd choice of name from China.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1lf63hv/whats_gasoline_called_in_each_asian_countries/

It sounds like it's not entirely consistent across China and the translation is somewhat-debatable, but a translation for China might be "gas-oil", "stone-oil", or "steam-oil".

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

汽油 (gas, as in state of matter + oil) refers to petrol/gasoline, the kind you put in cars.

石油 (stone oil) is refers to oil, as in the natural resource (such as crude).

原油 (origin oil) refers specifically to crude oil.

柴油 (kindling oil) refers to diesel.

加油 (add oil) is used to mean refilling the car with petrol.

And finally, 机油 (motor oil) is engine oil.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 hours ago

So really it should be yellow. Although "kindling oil" is really cool.