rock oil
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But by fracking the rock, oil flowed from the shale.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2014
There are likewise springs of rock oil or bitumen.
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.
In the late fifties Mr. George H. Bissell had become interested in rock oil, not as an embrocation and as a cure for most human ills, but as a light-giving material.
From The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry by Hendrick, Burton Jesse
I was hidden in cheap pink paper that smelt of rock oil.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James