heavy oil
a hydrocarbon mixture, heavier than water, distilled from coal tar
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How to use heavy oil in a sentence
The rain was falling in torrents and pattering on the heavy oil-skin clothing of the watchers.
St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 | VariousDiethyl selenide (C2H5)2Se, is a yellowish heavy oil of unpleasant odor.
For one thing, submarines don't use petrol—they use Diesel engines and heavy oil.
The Story of Our Submarines | John Graham BowerThe receiver is changed, and the "heavy oil" comes over; towards the end a thick brown or yellow viscid product is got.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. | Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob BeringerIn that year a patent was taken out by Bethell for preserving timber by impregnating it with the heavy oil from coal-tar.
Coal | Raphael Meldola
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