Definition of Chinese wood oil

1. Noun. A yellow oil obtained from the seeds of the tung tree.

Exact synonyms: Tung Oil
Generic synonyms: Oil

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chinese Wood Oil

Chinese silver
Chinese snooker
Chinese squeeze
Chinese squeezes
Chinese truffle
Chinese truffles
Chinese unicorn
Chinese unicorns
Chinese water chestnut
Chinese wax
Chinese whispers
Chinese white cabbage
Chinese white pear
Chinese white pears
Chinese wistaria
Chinese wood oil (current term)
Chinese yam
Chineselike
Chineseman
Chineseness
Chinesey
Chinggisid
Chinggisids
Chingisid
Chinglish
Chingpo
Chink
Chinkiang vinegar
Chinks

Literary usage of Chinese wood oil

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"S. concludes that the polymerization of Chinese wood oil is analogous to that of ... If Chinese wood oil is rapidly heated to 350° it will polymerize, ..."

2. Iron Corrosion: Anti-fouling and Anti-corrosive Paints by Louis Edgar Andés (1900)
"Chinese wood oil (WOOD OIL, JAPANESE WOOD OIL, VARNISH TREE OIL, OR TUNG OIL). Even in older chemico-technical works brief notices are to be met with on the ..."

3. Analysis of Paint Vehicles, Japans and Varnishes by Clifford Dyer Holley (1920)
"CHAPTER VIII TUNG OIL (Chinese wood oil) 102. Valuation. The paint manufacturer is enabled to control the purity of his linseed oil by purchasing direct ..."

4. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"2 expressed in the laboratory from Chinese wood oil nuts. In column 3 is a summary of the average results of n investigators upon 3 samples of tung oil ..."

5. Standard methods of chemical analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"Chinese wood oil may be detected in the vehicle by mixing the oil with an equal volume of a saturated solution of iodine in petri.- leum ether, allowing the ..."

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