Synonyms for rock oil

Grammar : Noun

Définition of rock oil

As in crude oil : noun unrefined petroleum

Example sentences :

It can only be preserved in naphtha, rock oil, or some other fluid hydrocarbon.
Extract from : « Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II » by Arnold Cooley

It has in one part a spring of petroleum or rock oil, and one of its mountains is a volcano.
Extract from : « A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VI » by Robert Kerr

From such processes the so-called hydrocarbons, rock oil and natural gas, have accumulated.
Extract from : « Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know » by Julia Ellen Rogers

Both Townsend and Drake would have died richer men had they never heard of the Pennsylvania rock oil.
Extract from : « Inventors » by Philip Gengembre Hubert

Then came the great discovery of rock oil, which rapidly superseded the whale oil of commerce in general use.
Extract from : « Equatorial America » by Maturin M. Ballou

Holes are bored into the rocks, and the petroleum or rock oil is pumped into huge tanks.
Extract from : « Great Cities of the United States » by Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth

A product of the fractional distillation of American rock oil.
Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley

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