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Diesel or Diesel fuel (IPA: /ˈdiːzəl/) in general is any fuel used in diesel engines. The most common is a specific fractional distillate of petroleum fuel oil, but alternatives that are not derived from petroleum, such as biodiesel, biomass to liquid (BTL) or gas to liquid (GTL) diesel, are increasingly being developed and adopted. To distinguish these types, petroleum-derived diesel is increasingly called petrodiesel. Ultra-low sulfur diesel(ULSD) is a standard for defining diesel fuel with... full article at wikipedia
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Last edited by esplana Oct 16, 2008
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