How to Use naphtha in a Sentence

naphtha

noun
  • Lawrence could not say what quantity of naphtha was involved.
    — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Filling the page, an army made of iron and filled with naphtha thunders forth, spewing flames.
    — Lee Lawrence, WSJ, 18 July 2017
  • Petrobas is the main supplier of naphtha for Braskem in Brazil.
    — Marissa Luck, Houston Chronicle, 4 June 2019
  • The membrane performed just as well on lighter refinery streams, such as virgin naphtha.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 18 June 2026
  • The night before the fire, two trucks transferred butane, a flammable gas, into the storage tank to mix it with the naphtha.
    — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Renewable naphtha is processed from crude tall oil, which is a by-product of the pulp industry.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Factories elsewhere will turn the naphtha into household goods.
    — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • The barges contained soybean oil, lube oil, naphtha and monoethylene glycol, the Coast Guard said.
    — Christina Maxouris and Dakin Andone, CNN, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The naphtha shock will likely hurt small- and medium-size enterprises more than bigger companies.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • India accounted for about 8% of South Korea’s naphtha imports last year.
    — ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Much of Venezuela’s oil is ultra-heavy crude, requiring special treatment and naphtha blending to be transported.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 12 Jan. 2026
  • While there are some byproducts available elsewhere, the Middle East oilfields are the top source for naphtha and there is no substitute for that.
    — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The ship had loaded a cargo of naphtha in Abu Dhabi and was bound for Taiwan, a company official said.
    — Bloomberg News, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019
  • At the same time, higher oil and gas prices and tighter naphtha supply are pushing up costs for components including interiors, coatings and tires.
    — CNBC, 4 May 2026
  • The vast, ambitious novels imagine a steampunkish version of our world, where the rooms are lit by naphtha lamps, blimplike airships cruise the skies, and armored bears prowl the north.
    — Wired, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Tahoe was lovely, but inconspicuously obtaining large volumes of naphtha and priority stamps was tough so far from a city.
    — Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 22 May 2025
  • For example, 41% of Asia’s naphtha comes from the Middle East, Gildea noted.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2026
  • And almost half of Asia’s naphtha supplies flow through the Strait of Hormuz, Fitterling noted.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • These nanoscale pathways allowed lighter fractions, including naphtha, gasoline, and kerosene, to pass through while retaining heavier components.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 29 June 2026
  • In South Korea, the naphtha shortage has already begun rippling through the petrochemical supply chain.
    — CNBC, 26 May 2026
  • Global appetite for oil remains below pre-pandemic levels despite a pickup in consumption of gasoline, naphtha and fuel oil, which is used to heat homes and power ships.
    — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2021
  • The machine consists of a small steam boiler, beside which another receptacle to contain naphtha is placed, located on the front portion of a low wagon, the body of which is of iron.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The study, led by Sang-yup Lee, comes at a time when global naphtha prices are volatile due to supply constraints and higher demand from the petrochemical industry.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026
  • Some 20% of Asia’s naphtha, a precursor to benzene and other key chemicals for plastics, is sourced through the Suez Canal.
    — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Two years later, 13 miners were buried alive in the central shaft of the tunnel when a candle ignited naphtha fumes, setting off an explosion and filling the shaft with water.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Taiwan’s reliance on Russia for naphtha also exposes it to potential moves by China to disrupt those supplies.
    — John Liu, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • To make plastic, the petroleum is first refined into naphtha and then into plastic materials such as polyethylene and polypropylene.
    — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Restrictions on the imports of diluents that reduce heavy oil viscosity, such as naphtha, continue to cap Venezuela’s effective supply.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The blaze -- which burned for 64 hours and spread to 11 tanks filled with gasoline blend stocks, naphtha, xylene and pygas -- sent a miles-long plume of black smoke over the Houston area for several days.
    — Paul Takahashi, Houston Chronicle, 6 Oct. 2019
  • Recyclers can overpower them by heavily diluting the recycled naphtha.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 20 June 2024

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