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Rock oil   /rɑk ɔɪl/   Listen
Rock oil

noun
1.
A dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons.  Synonyms: crude, crude oil, fossil oil, oil, petroleum.





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"Rock oil" Quotes from Famous Books



... Petroleum: Rock oil, an inflammable, bituminous liquid exuding from rocks or from the earth in the neighborhood of ...
— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
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... particularly on account of its abounding in gold. Besides gold, it produces white sandal-wood, benzoin, camphor, pepper, ginger, cinnamon[153], abundance of silk, and abounds in fish and cattle. It has in one part a spring of petroleum or rock oil, and one of its mountains is a volcano. The original natives of the island are pagans; but the Moors who came there first as merchants, have possessed themselves of the island as lords ever since the year 1400. Among the inland tribes is one called Batas, who are ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VI - Early English Voyages Of Discovery To America • Robert Kerr
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