rock oil

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2014

No. On all bearings the same oil, but on mainspring a rock oil.

From Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in Horology by Lewis, William T.

From such processes the so-called hydrocarbons, rock oil and natural gas, have accumulated.

From Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Rogers, Julia Ellen

It has in one part a spring of petroleum or rock oil, and one of its mountains is a volcano.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

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

From Ulysses by Joyce, James