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
In this phial put, first, glass coarsely powdered; secondly, oil of tartar per deliquum; thirdly, tincture of salt of tartar; and lastly, distilled rock oil.
From Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments by Unknown
His report was so favorable that a company was formed, which leased all the land along Oil Creek upon which were traces of the new rock oil.
From Inventors by Hubert, Philip Gengembre
Then came the great discovery of rock oil, which rapidly superseded the whale oil of commerce in general use.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
It has in one part a spring of petroleum or rock oil, and one of its mountains is a volcano.
