A volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture derived from crude oil, similar to gasoline or petrol.
From German 'Benzin,' itself derived from 'benzoin' (a resin). The term became widespread in European usage for refined petroleum distillate.
'Benzin' is basically the European way of saying what Americans call 'gasoline'—this linguistic split shows how chemical products got named differently across the Atlantic based on early industrial chemistry terms.
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