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Definition of Bone oil

1. Noun. The liquid portion of bone fat; used as a lubricant and in leather manufacture.

2. Noun. Dark-colored ill-smelling oil obtained by carbonizing bone; used especially in sheep dips and in denaturing alcohol.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bone Oil

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Literary usage of Bone oil

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

1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"bone oil is used as a lubricant, and in the leather industries replaces ... If such bone oil is free from fatty acids, it represents one of the best ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"bone oil is used as a lubricant, and in the leather industries replaces neat's ... If such bone oil is free from fatty acids, it represents one of the best ..."

3. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp (1916)
"The crude bone oil is a dark-colored, foul-smelling liquid, lighter than water. ... The constituents of bone oil are exceedingly numerous, ..."

4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"Bone-oil is mainly a product of the decomposition of gelatinous tissue, ... 65) in bone-oil and in coal-tar, and distinguished by the property of imparting ..."

5. Technical Methods of Chemical Analysis by Georg Lunge (1914)
"Neat's-foot and bone oil.—Both these oils are much used in the preparation of fat liquors for chrome leather, and must, therefore, be free from solid fats ..."

6. The Condensed Chemical Dictionary: A Reference Volume for All Requiring by Francis Mills Turner, Daniel Deronda Berolzheimer, William Parker Cutter, John Helfrich, Chemical Catalog Company, Inc (1920)
"The crude bone oil is subjected to fractional distillation. The constituents are numerous, the most important being pyri- dine. ..."

7. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1880)
"It appeared that as the bone oil had so hardened the carbon, ... An experiment was accordingly tried in which bone oil distillate and paraffin spirit were ..."

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