animal oil

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All vegetable and animal oil which has been "bleached" by exposure to the light is more liable to decomposition on exposure to air than that which is unbleached.

From Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in Horology by Lewis, William T.

We also got from these people a considerable quantity of very good animal oil, which they had reserved in bladders.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert

It differs essentially from the other kind of animal oil, by containing an alkali instead of an acid.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph

In this portion of Mr Crimple's leg, sir, there is a certain amount of animal oil.

From Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens, Charles

I poured 2 ounces of colourless and transparent animal oil of Dippel into a bottle and closed it very lightly; after the expiry of two months the oil was thick and black.

From Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2 by Scheele, Carl Wilhelm