| 单词 | fossil oil |
| 释义 | fossil oil (once / 2954828 pages) n WORD FAMILY fossil oil: fossil oils USAGE EXAMPLESBut all fossil oil is probably of vegetable or animal origin, from masses of vegetables or animals long buried in the earth. Priestley, Joseph, Heads of Lectures on a Course of Ex...(2011) On distillation with volatile alcaly all these fossil oils are shewn to contain the acid of amber, which evinces the identity of their origin. Darwin, Erasmus, The Botanic Garden—A Poem in Two P...(2010) n a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons Syn|Hypo|Hyper crude, crude oil, oil, petroleum, rock oil resid, residual oil oil products that remain after petroleum has been distilled fossil fuel fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen content oila slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water |
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