Whale-oil Sentence Examples

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  • Tallow candles as a substitute for whale-oil had been introduced, and the British market was closed by a duty of £r8 a ton on oil; a bounty offered by the Massachusetts legislature (£5 on white and £ 3 on yellow or brown spermaceti, and £2 on whale-oil per ton) was of slight assistance.

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  • Sometimes both whale and mineral oils are used, but in most cases the whale oil is omitted.

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  • The most important whale-oil is sperm or spermaceti oil, yielded by the sperm-whales.

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  • Whale-oil varies in colour from a bright honey yellow to a dark brown, according to the condition of the blubber from which it has been extracted.

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  • When separated and pressed, this deposit is known as whale tallow, and the oil from which it is removed is distinguished as pressed whale-oil; this, owing to its limpidity, is sometimes passed as sperm-oil.

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  • Whale-oil is principally used in oiling wools for combing, in batching flax and other vegetable fibres, in currying and chamois leather-making, and as a lubricant for machinery.

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  • Rubber, coffee, wax, sugar and palm-kernels, dried fish and whale oil are the chief exports.

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  • This was done by heating the barrels up and then quenching them in huge vats of whale oil.

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  • The remedy is to spray with kerosene emulsion or whale-oil soap; or if on cucumbers or tomatoes, it is best to fumigate with hydrocyanic acid gas, using one ounce of potassium cyanide to each woo cubic ft.

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  • In the past two centuries with very little technology, we've come from whale oil and wood to solar and nuclear.

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  • For example, whale oil needed a large amount of oxygen to burn.

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  • It burned brightly and did not need the large amount of oxygen that the whale oil did.

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  • It isn't likely that you'll be able to get your hands on whale oil (or that you would want to) in order to make authentic Colonial candles.

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