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Answer for the clue "A gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn ", 7 letters:
gasohol

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Word definitions for gasohol in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gasoline and ethanol mixture, 1975, from gasoline + (ethyl) alcohol .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Alcohol is usually added to petrol to form a mixture called gasohol .

Usage examples of gasohol.

The air reeked of the sickly sweet aroma of gasohol, as New York always does.

Beyond the field of alabaster statues loomed the orangeish light and the distant gasohol smell of New York City, give or take a few other warehouse scents and some swamps.

I sat there, where we could smell the smoke from the burning cars and the dead bodies mixed in with the gasohol scent of New York, I started crying.

First it was wheat and sorghum, then the dust bowl, and after that they replanted in feed corn and now gasohol corn.

A reek of putrid fish and fruit even in this chill damp night, though muted somewhat by the baking-sugar sweetness of Chinese gasohol from the vehicles whirring past on the expressway.

I stood in the mouth of a cave, looking out over a broad valley, up through a light gasohol rain at the Mauve Star nailed to its place in the dim, vivid sky.

He wound up the windows against the burnt-sugar smell of Gasohol exhaust, and thumbed a Counting Crows CD into the player.

As he topped off the tank, squeezing the trigger to fire additional quart or half-gallon bursts of gasohol down the pipe, he heard loud Patsy Cline music spilling out of an open door on the side of the cowgirl bar.

As you know, the Brazilians use gasohol for thirty percent of their fuel requirements.

Since most of the cars these days were low-speed electric or gasohol metropolitan-area getabouts, regular traffic was restricted to the two inside lanes.

If the environment should happen to cross your mind while you are trying to decide between leaded, unleaded, diesel, or gasohol, severe legal penalties would ensue.

First it was wheat and sorghum, then the dust bowl, and after that they replanted in feed corn and now gasohol corn.