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synfuels


(SIN-fyooh-uhlz) Short for synthetic fuels. Synfuels are substances made through the extraction of petroleum or coal from minerals found in the western United States.	1
‡ The cost of synfuels is presently too high to make them commercially attractive.	2

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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