fossil fuel

English

Noun

fossil fuel (plural fossil fuels)

1. any fuel derived from hydrocarbon deposits such as coal, petroleum, natural gas and, to some extent, peat; these fuels are non-renewable, and their burning generates the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide

Translations

fuel

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 化石燃料 (zh) (huàshí ránliào)

• Czech: fosilní palivo (cs) n
• Danish: fossilt brændstof n, fossilt brændsel n
• Dutch: fossiele brandstof f
• Finnish: fossiilinen polttoaine
• French: énergie fossile (fr) f
• German: fossiler Brennstoff m
• Hungarian: fosszilis tüzelőanyag
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• Italian: combustibile fossile (it) m
• Japanese: 化石燃料 (ja) (kaseki nenryō)
• Maori: koranehe
• Polish: paliwo kopalne n
• Romanian: combustibil fosil m
• Russian: ископаемое топливо n (iskopajemoje toplivo)
• Spanish: combustible fósil (es) m
• Swedish: fossilt bränsle n