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  • rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons...
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    Petroleum (redirect from Crude oil)
    Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in...
    133 KB (15,005 words) - 23:37, 13 May 2024
  • Look up oiler in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Oiler may refer to: Replenishment oiler Tanker (ship) Cape Breton Oilers, a former American Hockey League...
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    Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common...
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    Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of oil palms. The oil is used in food manufacturing, in beauty...
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    rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained by pressing whole olives, the fruit of Olea europaea...
    91 KB (10,972 words) - 10:17, 13 May 2024
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    triglycerides. Soybean oil, grape seed oil, and cocoa butter are examples of seed oils, or fats from seeds. Olive oil, palm oil, and rice bran oil are examples...
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    given to marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters, but spills may also occur on land. Oil spills may be due to releases...
    90 KB (9,844 words) - 00:22, 8 May 2024
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    Oil! is a novel by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1926–27 and told as a third-person narrative, with only the opening pages written in the first person...
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    Midnight Oil (known informally as "The Oils") are an Australian rock band composed of Peter Garrett (vocals, harmonica), Rob Hirst (drums), Jim Moginie...
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  • Standard Oil Company, Inc., was an American oil production, transportation, refining, and marketing company that operated from 1870 to 1911. At its height...
    61 KB (6,674 words) - 23:20, 14 May 2024
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    Soybean oil (British English: soyabean oil) is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the soybean (Glycine max). It is one of the most widely consumed...
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    Mustard oil can mean either the pressed oil used for cooking, or a pungent essential oil also known as volatile oil of mustard. The essential oil results...
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    Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against the countries who had supported Israel at any point during...
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    The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the "BP oil spill") was an environmental disaster which began on 20 April 2010, off the coast of the...
    238 KB (22,739 words) - 06:12, 29 April 2024
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    This is a list of countries by oil production (i.e., petroleum production), as compiled from the U.S. Energy Information Administration database for calendar...
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  • Drillship, a floating apparatus for offshore oil drilling Oil platform, an apparatus for offshore oil drilling Oil well, a boring from which oil is extracted...
    535 bytes (51 words) - 02:56, 21 January 2024
  • Oil crisis or oil shock may refer to: Abadan Crisis ("Iran Oil Crisis") of 1951–1954 - nationalization, coup, and de-nationalisation in Iran 1970s energy...
    864 bytes (153 words) - 12:34, 5 June 2023
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    Peak oil is the theorized point in time when the maximum rate of global oil production will occur, after which oil production will begin an irreversible...
    105 KB (10,860 words) - 22:12, 5 May 2024
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    to their high smoke point: Avocado oil Mustard oil Palm oil Peanut oil (marketed as "groundnut oil" in the UK and India) Rice bran oil Safflower oil Olive...
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