/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.16121018]

>Americans see liquid
>they call it gas

[Anonymous No.16121020]

Where does the word Petrol come from?

[Anonymous No.16121022]

>>16121020
troll
from trolling the horse merchants

[Anonymous No.16121023]

>>16121020
Petroleum

[Anonymous No.16121029]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0wK6s-6cbo

[Anonymous No.16121053]

>>16121020
petrol
petroleum
petra (rock)
oleum (oil)

[bodhi No.16121059]

>>16121018
>I fart
>you sniff (gas)

[Anonymous No.16121157]

>>16121018
it turns into gas in the engine

[Anonymous No.16121191]

>>16121018
The word 'gasoline' is derived from popular brands of petrol fuel that were available when the car first went mainstream.

Sort of like how everyone calls movable waste containers "dumpsters" or standard cotton-tipped applicators "q-tips" or adhesive medicated bandages "bandaids" or bio-lubricated semen receptacles "your mom".

[Anonymous No.16121479]

>>16121018
it evaporates fairly quickly and is (hopefully) atomized during injection, so it's not that far off

meanwhile:
>Germans see liquid
>they call it "benzin" despite low levels of benzene

[Anonymous No.16121485]

>>16121479
Might as well ask why we can call it 'petrol' without an alcohol group

[Sage No.16121487]

Please keep trolling to /b/. Thanks OP!

[Anonymous No.16121498]

>>16121485
>>16121053

[Anonymous No.16121529]

>>16121018
>The American English word gasoline denotes fuel for automobiles, which common usage shortened to the terms gas, motor gas, and mogas, and thus differentiated that fuel from avgas (aviation gasoline), which is fuel for aeroplanes. The term gasoline originated from the trademark terms Cazeline and Gazeline, which were stylized spellings and pronunciations of Cassell, the surname of British businessman John Cassell
Surely the people from the island of "biros" and "lycra" can understand this. Limeys call things by genericized trademark terms way more often than we do in the US.

[Anonymous No.16121546]

>>16121018
Oy vey stop noticing