black gold
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black gold
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(crude oil; coal; black pepper): From its black colour and high value.
noun
- Raw petroleum; crude oil. With the black gold already gushing from his country's wells, the Iranian monarch did not show much interest in what the Republic of China had to offer in agricultural know-how, commerce, and cultural interflow.
- Black pepper, in the context of being a historically valuable spice.
- Black-coloured gold, variously produced by patination, deposition, oxidation, etc. and used in jewellery or in high-technology applications.
- Coal. They [the railways] are mostly remnants of a long-gone coal industry, laid out largely to bring the black gold from the mines to the waterways.
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noun petroleum
| Español | oro negro |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 黑金 hēijīn |
| Português | ouro negro |
| Français | or noir |
| Deutsch | schwarzes Gold |
| Italiano | oro nero |
| Ελληνικά | μαύρος χρυσός mávros chrysós |
| Română | aur negru |
| Русский | чёрное зо́лото čórnoje zóloto |
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