rock oil

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2014

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

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

In this phial put, first, glass coarsely powdered; secondly, oil of tartar per deliquum; thirdly, tincture of salt of tartar; and lastly, distilled rock oil.

From Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments by Unknown

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

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