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  • noun Plural form of pentane.

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  • For example, refineries must remove certain gasoline components - such as butanes and pentanes - to further reduce gasoline RVP, as they do now for summer fuels to prevent gasoline vapors from escaping storage tanks and fuel lines during the ozone season.

    USATODAY.com Feed 2012

  • The Company will deliver an estimated annual volume of approximately 3.6 million U.S. gallons of pentanes.

    unknown title 2009

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