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Definition of Dolphin oil
1. Noun. An unsaturated fatty oil obtained from dolphins and used as a fine lubricant.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dolphin Oil
Literary usage of Dolphin oil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1864)
"0'812 dissolve at 70°, 100 pts. of dolphin oil, forming a solution which becomes
turbid at 52° ; 100 pts. alcohol of sp. gr. 0'795 dissolve at 20°, ..."
2. Commercial Oils, Vegetable and Animal: With Special Reference to Oriental Oils by Irving Fink Laucks (1919)
"Characteristics dolphin oil Both body and jaw oil are similar in characteristics
to porpoise body and jaw oil respectively, and are similarly used. ..."
3. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1921)
"'The chemistry of the (dolphin oil) acid has not been investigated since then,
and its occurrence in glycerides may be doubted. ..."
4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1840)
"10 per cent, of rape oil, added to dolphin oil, and treated by the acid nitrate
of mercury, renders it softer and more of an orange tint ; but the ..."
5. A New and Complete Treatise on the Arts of Tanning, Currying, and Leather by Hippolyte Dussauce (1865)
"While spermaceti is not, properly speaking, an oil, however, as it has some of
its characters, it may be included among them. dolphin oil ..."
6. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"... dolphin-oil as DELPHIN (ii. 309). 4. OTHER ANIMAL OILS.—o. Oil of Ants.
The residue left on distilling ants with ..."
7. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1898)
"From a sample of dolphin oil (from Delphinus globiceps), ... Hence dolphin oil
appears to be intermediate in composition between sperm oil and porpoise oil. ..."
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