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What does OB stand for?

Oil-Based


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Samples in periodicals archive:
9 billion) next year due to lower oil-based fuel consumption, according to president director Fahmi Mochtar "PLN aims to reduce oil-based fuel consumption while in turn increasing the consumption of non-oil-based fuels, which are *mainly* gas and coal," Fahmi said in a hearing with the House of Representatives Commission VII overseeing energy and mining on Monday "As the operation of some power plants under the 10,000 megawatt program will begin next year, oil-based fuel consumption is expected to decrease to 6.
There are two very different types of oil-based herbal medicines.
It contains gray absorbent pads that can absorb both water-based fluids and hydrocarbons or oil-based fluids.
You should only use an oil-based moisturizer if you have excessively dry skin, as oil based moisturizers can make naturally oily skin extremely greasy and shiny.
TKB Trading offers oil-based natural dyes: oil-based blue (from blue gardenia flowers), oil-based green (from chlorophyll--the stuff that causes grass stains), oil-based red (from beetles or "carmine"--this one is not vegan), and oil-based yellow (from annatto seed).
Men who had used an oil-based lubricant were more than three times as likely to report breakage.
The discoloration will have happened because you used an oil-based white paint, which tends to yellow over time.
It's a finite resource and the most generous estimates of how much is left give oil-based economies only until 2050.

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