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
Then came the great discovery of rock oil, which rapidly superseded the whale oil of commerce in general use.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
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
Girl in Tranquilla convent that nun told me liked to smell rock oil.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
There are likewise springs of rock oil or bitumen.
