animal oil
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I had filled a bottle with our air, I poured some colourless animal oil into it and closed it tightly.
From Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2 by Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Sometimes she made a dressing out of animal oil, beaten to a cream; and it was better than lettuce salad.
From The Sky Line of Spruce by Edison Marshall
These physicians consider that these electric sparks are sufficient to ignite the spirituous liquor which may have saturated any organic tissue of the body, the combustion being afterwards fed by animal oil.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
The former is an animal oil obtained from the head cavities of the sperm-whale; the latter is a vegetable oil obtained from rape-seed.
From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh
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 Carl Wilhelm Scheele
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