Benzole

{{Short description|Coal-tar product}}

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In the United Kingdom, benzole or benzol is a coal-tar product consisting mainly of benzene and toluene. It was originally used as a "motor spirit", as were petroleum spirits. Benzole was also blended with petrol and sold as a motor fuel under trade names including "National Benzole Mixture" and "Regent Benzole Mixture".

{{cite book

| last= More

| first= Charles

| title= Black Gold: Britain and Oil in the Twentieth Century

| date= 20 June 2009

| publisher= A&C Black

| isbn= 978-1-84725-043-8

| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=HNPUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA64

| pages= 64–65

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Confusingly, in certain languages, such as German, Hungarian, Ukrainian and Russian, the word benzol (or benzole) means "benzene", and in some of these languages, words pronounced like "benzene" (e.g., the German word {{wikt-lang|de|Benzin}} or the Romanian word benzină) can mean "petrol" or "gasoline".Collins German Concise Dictionary, 1991, {{ISBN|0-00-433454-X}}