“They have assisted in the development and refinement of the final report by providing responses to their reading of the first drafts.”

“I detailed what progress was being made on the tools and machinery, how refinement of superior metals was coming along, and the construction of blast furnaces and prototype pumps for the Bessemer converters.”

“Besides being almost perfectly beautiful, there is a grace, a delicacy, a feminine refinement in her manner.”

“A new combination of technologies has been put together to create the refinery.”

“The refinery has a daily capacity of 70,000 barrels of crude and produces gasoline, diesel fuel, military jet fuel, solvents and asphalt.”

“A new refinery will be constructed in central Iraq, with a production capacity of 30,000 barrels per day.”

“The chief aim of the refiner is to remove these impurities without saponifying any of the neutral oil.”

“Each refiner must submit the kerosene that he produces to systematic laboratory tests.”

“In the HSLA segment of the industry, niobium is used as a grain refiner and precipitation strengthener.”

“Other emendations, while also worthwhile, consist more of refinements addressed to specialists than to general readers.”

“Among the refinements currently under discussion is a redesignation of antipersonnel mines as unlawful. ”

“Other refinements were the tearing of the flesh of the condemned with red-hot pincers, the cutting off of hands, and the cutting out of tongues.”

“South Africa has the most important refineries in the region with a total capacity of 650 000 barrels per day.”

“Just like they said when those very same refineries were shut down because of a rash of accidents, it was going to cost us.”

“By the end of the century, kerosene had become the chief product of American oil refineries.”