acid heat test

noun

: a test used in petroleum refining for indicating the amount of unsaturated hydrocarbons in gasoline and performed by noting the increase in temperature caused by adding one volume of 93 percent sulfuric acid to five volumes of gasoline in a Dewar flask

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1917, in the meaning defined above

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