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Meaning of "rock oil" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ROCK OIL

rock oil play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROCK OIL

noun
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verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rock oil is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROCK OIL

rock flour
rock formation
rock garden
rock hyraces
rock hyrax
rock lobster
rock mechanics
rock melon
rock music
Rock of Gibraltar
rock opera
rock painting
rock partridge
rock pigeon
rock pipit
rock plant
rock pool
rock python
rock rabbit
rock salmon

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROCK OIL

argan oil
burn the midnight oil
coconut oil
cooking oil
crude oil
essential oil
fuel oil
gas oil
heavy crude oil
mineral oil
motor oil
olive oil
palm oil
sesame oil
sunflower oil
sunflower seed oil
the good oil
tung oil
vegetable oil
virgin olive oil

Synonyms and antonyms of rock oil in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «rock oil» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROCK OIL

Find out the translation of rock oil to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rock oil from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rock oil» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

石油
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

aceite de piedra
570 millions of speakers

English

rock oil
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रॉक तेल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

النفط الصخري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

рок масло
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

óleo de rocha
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শিলা তেল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´huile de roche
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Minyak batu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Steinöl
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

岩油
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

바위 오일
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lenga batu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dầu nguyên chất
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாறை எண்ணெய்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रॉक ऑइल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

madeni yağ
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

olio di roccia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

olej skalny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

рок масло
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ulei de rock
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πετρέλαιο ροκ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rock -olie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bergolja
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stein olje
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rock oil

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ROCK OIL»

The term «rock oil» is regularly used and occupies the 81.195 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ROCK OIL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rock oil

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROCK OIL»

Discover the use of rock oil in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rock oil and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Business Builders in Oil
People called the Pennsylvania oil "rock oil" because it came from the ground rather than from animals or plants. The word petroleum, the scientific name for oil, is a combination of the Greek words for "rock" and "oil." Human beings have used  ...
Nathan Aaseng, 2000
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The Biomarker Guide: Biomarkers and isotopes in petroleum ...
... found within or stratigraphically near the source rock. Oil in the Devonian pinnacle reefs of western Canada appears to have migrated from nearby sources , while oil at Athabasca probably migrated up to 100 km or more from the source rock.
Kenneth E. Peters, Clifford C. Walters, J. Michael Moldowan, 2005
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Encyclopaedia of Petroleum Science and Engineering
A source rock oil is usually not similar in composition to its corresponding reservoir oil for several reasons. First, there is evidence the oil fractionates during the process of leaving the sources and migrating to the reservoir accumulation.
S. L. Sah, 2010
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Contact Angle, Wettability and Adhesion
adhesion interactions in terms of line tension indicates the presence of stronger rock–oil adhesion interactions in the system than predicted conventionally. In the case of an oil-wet system, the work of adhesion is found to be 13 times higher ...
K. L. Mittal, 2009
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Oil in the Deep South: A History of the Oil Business in ...
The. Birth. of. the. Oil. Business,. 1859-1925. Naturally occurring oil from underground sources was found in small quantities at a few locations in the world where it had seeped to the surface. This was often called rock oil or mineral oil.
Dudley J. Hughes, 1993
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Queen's Bench and Practice Court Reports ... [1844-1882]
ating oil was knowu by the trade name of “ rock oil,” and by that term was for sale by manufacturers of and wholesale dealers in illuminating oils: that the plaintiffs were desirous of purchasing from defendants certain oil, to be transmitted at the ...
J. Hillyard Cameron, Sir James Lukin Robinson, Christopher Robinson, 1864
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Queen's Bench and Practice Court Reports ...
ating oil was known by the trade name of " rock oil," and by that term was for sale by manufacturers of and wholesale dealers in illuminating oils : that the plaintiffs were desirous of purchasing from defendants certain oil, to be transmitted at the ...
Upper Canada. Court of Queen's Bench, Christopher Robinson, 1864
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Petrophysics: Theory and Practice of Measuring Reservoir ...
... relative permeability curves to be representative of conditions in the reservoir [ 69–72]. The saturation history of the water-oil-rock system (or core) has a fundamental influence on the equilibrium wetting condition of the rock. Oil reservoirs are ...
Erle C. Donaldson, Djebbar Tiab, 2004
9
Oil Fields of the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coastal Plain
Shale and gumbo Oil shale and rock Oil sand and rock Shale and rock Hard pan Shale with gas blowout Sand rock Shale Hard sand and rock Oil rock and shale alternating and containing gas.. . Same with gumbo; no gas. Rock Shale Rock.
Nevin Melancthon Fenneman, 1906
10
Oil Possibilities in and Around Baxter Basin, in the Rock ...
Black shale and streaks of harder material Black shale 1, 095-1, 100 924-980 980-983 1, 100-1, 115 1, 115-1, 147 983-1,008 008-1, 035 035-1, 037 Sand rock, oil bearing. . Hard blue sand rock Gray shale 1, 147-1, 159 1, 159-1, 173 1, 173-1 , ...
Alfred Reginald Schultz, 1920

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROCK OIL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rock oil is used in the context of the following news items.
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Rock Oil Holdings has $250 million in equity, eyes Utica shale
DENVER, HOUSTON, and LONDON, March 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Rock Oil Holdings LLC ("Rock Oil" or the "Company"), a newly-formed, Denver and ... «Akron Beacon Journal, Mar 14»
2
New Houston shale energy company forms
New energy company Rock Oil Holdings LLC has acquired a $250 million equity investment to explore oil and gas shale plays in Texas' Eagle Ford and ... «Houston Business Journal, Mar 14»

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