Bone oil Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun the liquid portion of bone fat; used as a lubricant and in leather manufacture
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noun dark-colored ill-smelling oil obtained by carbonizing bone; used especially in sheep dips and in denaturing alcohol
Dippel's oil.
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Definitions
- an oil obtained by, heating bones (as in the manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for containing the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their derivatives; also called
Dippel's oil .