rock oil

Example Sentences

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But by fracking the rock, oil flowed from the shale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2014

Then came the great discovery of rock oil, which rapidly superseded the whale oil of commerce in general use.

From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Both Townsend and Drake would have died richer men had they never heard of the Pennsylvania rock oil.

From Inventors by Hubert, Philip Gengembre

Petroleum, or rock oil, is a dark greenish brown liquid which when refined yields gasolene, naphtha, benzine, kerosene, lubricating oils, and paraffin.

From Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation by Gregory, Mary Huston

Girl in Tranquilla convent that nun told me liked to smell rock oil.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James