10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOUR-STAR PETROL»
Discover the use of
four-star petrol in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
four-star petrol and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
When fitted to a petrol engine it can improve the performance by the equivalent of
raising the octane rating by four points. As a result engines that need four-star
petrol can be made to run on two- star petrol— which does not contain any lead.
... Institute of Petroleum show that by far the largest slice of the 17-3 million
tonnes of motor fuel used in Britain in 1977 was the 12-7 million tonnes of four-
star petrol. The latter currently contains 500mg/litre of lead, the maximum allowed
in ...
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STP National Curriculum Mathematics
( MEG ) Susan calls at a petrol station and puts £23.87 worth of four-star leaded
petrol into her car. a How many litres of four-star petrol did she buy? b How much
would the same quantity of petrol have cost her if she had put the unleaded petrol
...
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STP New National Curriculum Mathematics
54 p per litre Susan calls at a petrol station and puts £23.87 worth of four-star
leaded petrol into her car. a How many litres of four-star petrol did she buy ? b
How much would the same quantity of petrol have cost her if she had put the
unleaded ...
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Higher Engineering Mathematics
John Bird,. 6. Four-star and unleaded petrol is tested in five similar cars under
identical conditions. For four-star petrol, the cars covered a mean distance of 21.4
kilometres with a standard deviation of 0.54 kilometres for a given mass of petrol.
And the cost for lead- free four-star petrol would be only an extra penny per litre. It
is more than a year since the junior minister at the Department of the
Environment Giles Shaw, announced that the British government would ban lead
from ...
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Green Tax Reform: Pollution Payments and Labour Tax Cuts
This reflects partly economic pressures, since this is the fuel used by the road
haulage industry, but partly also a belief that diesel is a "cleaner" fuel than four
star petrol. This is now open to considerable doubt. Diesel engines tend to be
more ...
Stephen Tindale, Gerald Holtham, 1996
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Langenscheidt Diccionario Moderno Inglés:
... gasolina normal regular (gasoline), Br two-star (petrol); gasolina sin plomo
unleaded (gasoline o Br petrol); gasolina super premium gasoline, Br four-star (
petrol) gasolinera /gas station, Br petrol station gasolinero m gas station
attendant, ...
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COLLOQUIAL PORTUGUESE BRAZIL
posto de gasolina gasolina (f) gasolina comum gasolina aditivada sem chumbo (
Pt) diesel (m) gas/petrol station gas/petrol two-star petrol with additives/four-star
petrol unleaded diesel uma pane/uma avaria 0 men carro esta quebrado 0 meu.
Mcintyre,, Osborne,, Sampai,, 2012
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Salters Higher Chemistry
For example, four-star petrol has an octane number of 97 and knocks at the same
compression ratio as a mixture of 97% 2,2,4-trimethylpentane and 3% heptane.
CH3 CH3 CH3-C-CH2-CH-CH3 I CH3 2,2,4-trimethylpentane low tendency to ...
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FOUR-STAR PETROL»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
four-star petrol is used in the context of the following news items.
Vintage year for rockers to linger on, like their melodies
... Top Gear as "Tory f***ing public school w*"kers getting high on four-star petrol" and therefore "heinous" - was a breath of fresh air in 2014. «Irish Independent, Dec 14»
Story of the huge petrol blaze in the 1984 Summit Tunnel fire near …
A goods train carrying one million litres of four-star petrol in 13 tankers entered the tunnel on the Yorkshire side and a defective axle bearing ... «Halifax Evening Courier, Sep 12»
Leaded petrol to be phased out within the next two years
... was first added to petrol in the 1920s. The battle to eliminate it began in the 1970s and culminated in a UK ban on four-star petrol in 1998. «Daily Mail, Oct 11»
Eco lighting: a buyer's guide
The four-star petrol of the lighting world, this decrepit dinosaur is well on the way out. Although they can no longer be bought in stores in the UK ... «The Ecologist, Oct 11»
Milk prices to rise
He told the magazine: "It is like putting ordinary four-star petrol in a Formula 1 car. But I think you will find farmers looking at their feeding costs ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 11»
Pensioner hit with £670 bill for spilling two litres of petrol at filling …
Ron Wyde, 69, was buying four-star petrol at a Morrison's store when a pipe on the tank of his Vauxhall Astra accidentally came loose and ... «Daily Mail, Dec 09»
Why does the Church of England recycle its sermons?
... were burning a hole in the ozone layer, everyone put four-star petrol in their cars and you had to drive to a supermarket to find a bottle bank. «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 09»
World Twenty20: Bowlers have fought back to restore balance …
... in South Africa, bowlers simply appeared as cannon fodder, with weapons such as bouncers rationed like four-star petrol in Zimbabwe. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 09»
