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  • Kerosene (redirect from Stove oil)
    extracted a number of useful liquids from it, one of which he named paraffine oil because at low temperatures, it congealed into a substance that resembled...
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    Petroleum (redirect from Crude oil)
    oil gave similar products. Young found that by slow distillation he could obtain several useful liquids from it, one of which he named "paraffine oil"...
    131 KB (14,550 words) - 04:40, 14 November 2024
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    oil gave similar products. Young found that by slow distillation he could obtain a number of useful liquids from it, one of which he named "paraffine...
    34 KB (4,275 words) - 19:42, 25 October 2024
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    James Young (chemist) (category Oil shale in Scotland)
    oil gave similar products. Young found that by slow distillation he could obtain a number of useful liquids from it, one of which he named "paraffine...
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    "paraffine oil" because at low temperatures it congealed into a substance resembling paraffin wax. In 1850 Young built the first truly commercial oil-works...
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    to a quality grade of paraffine lubricating oil. From the paraffine oil he obtained a solid white paraffine, which melted at about 130 °F (54 °C). "Canada...
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  • month prior, Kinney was also one of the founding officers of the Pinal Paraffine Oil Company. In 1905 he was one of the founding members, serving on the...
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    paraffine therefrom". With the world's first oil wells coming on-line in 1854 in Poland, the global price of oil dropped and many Scottish shale oil works...
    20 KB (2,267 words) - 23:40, 11 October 2024
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    has a carcinogenic risk if its dust is inhaled. From 1905 to 1988, The Paraffine Paint Co. of San Francisco had Malthoid as a trademark for waterproof...
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  • making an illuminating oil he called “paraffine,” from the cannel coal that was mined nearby, the Boghead coal, which yielded more oil than any of the other...
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  • Commonwealth Oil Corporation in 1906. The company was formed by the merger of two earlier companies, the Hartley Kerosene Oil and Paraffine Company and...
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    1851. Natural wax was largely replaced for the making of waxed paper (or paraffine paper) after Herman Frasch developed ways of purifying paraffin and coating...
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  • list of shale oil operations in Australia. Operations include mining of oil shale, extraction of crude shale oil, and refining of oil products. As there...
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    of two shale oil companies—Hartley Kerosene Oil and Paraffine Co. Ltd. and Western Kerosene Oil Co.—to form the New South Wales Shale & Oil Company, in...
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    time Asinger began to write on the monographs Chemie und Technologie der Paraffine (Chemistry and Technology of paraffins) and Chemie und Technologie der...
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  • Thumbnail for John Fell (industrialist)
    of two shale oil companies—Hartley Kerosene Oil and Paraffine Co. Ltd. and Western Kerosene Oil Co.—to form the New South Wales Shale & Oil Company, in...
    63 KB (7,362 words) - 14:20, 4 November 2024
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    of the Western Kerosene Oil Company, when in July 1871, he bought the assets of the rival Hartley Kerosene Oil and Paraffine Company, at auction. His...
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    the same. 1860 First paraffin candle factory in the world, the New York Paraffine Candle Co., set up in Clifton, New York, early in 1860, then moved to...
    62 KB (8,009 words) - 18:51, 3 November 2024