How To Use Spermaceti In A Sentence
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Some ziphiids are pursued by whalers for their oil and spermaceti.
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It was then that spermaceti, which is made from the oil of the sperm whale came on the scene.
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Spermaceti was known, probably from classical times onwards, as a rare and precious unguent, "resolutive and mollifying," as M. Pomel, "chief druggist to the late French King Louis XIV," says in his treatise on drugs, translated into English in 1737.
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Bull's Head stringy fowls, with lower extremities like wooden legs, sticking up out of the dish; of its cannibalic boiled mutton, gushing horribly among its capers when carved; of its little dishes of pastry --- roofs of spermaceti ointment, erected over half an apple or four gooseberries.
The Uncommercial Traveller
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Candles were also made from spermaceti, which is a substance taken from the head of the sperm whale.
Stories of American Life and Adventure
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_Spermaceti_, an oily substance, found in the head of a species of whale, called the spermaceti whale.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
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From 1700 for two centuries, thousands of sperm whales were killed and the oil in their heads called spermaceti was used to make candles.
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The valuable products of whaling, including whale oil, whalebone, and spermaceti for candle-making, provided the bulk of NSW's exports during the 1830s.
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There are other farms in other places, each devoted to a single bloom; there are even whaling boats on the Atlantic harvesting ambergris and spermaceti.
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The Sperm whale is the largest whale, and it's oil, called spermaceti, is the most valuable.
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Not only did the increased movement of both air and oil to the wick enable the solar lamp to burn brighter, but higher priced oils like spermaceti were not required to achieve these advantageous results.
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The soil contains so much comminuted talc and mica from the adjacent hills that it seems as if mixed with spermaceti.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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Still, whale-related products remained in high demand, especially the fine oil derived from spermaceti (the oil extracted from the head of sperm whales).
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Kokam butter, as found in the bazaars of India, consists of egg-shaped or concavo-convex cakes of a dirty white or yellowish colour, friable, crystalline, and with a greasy feel like spermaceti.
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Almost the only material used for artificially heightening the apparent proportion of stearoptene is said to be spermaceti, which is easily recognizable from its liability to settle down in a solid cake, and from its melting at 122° Fahr., whereas stearoptene fuses at 91. 4° Fahr.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
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However, these animal- and plant-derived oils, such as colza, olive, and spermaceti, were generally of such weight and viscosity that they would travel only one to two inches up a wick.
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About a quarter of the whale's body is taken up by its massive snout, properly called the spermaceti organ, which is filled with a very fine grade of oil.
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This is made into what you call spermaceti candles.
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc.
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The qualities of the oils thus described, it is to be added that an individual has discovered methods 1. of converting a great part of the oil of the spermaceti whale into the solid substance called spermaceti, heretofore produced from his head alone.
Public Papers
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Not only did the increased movement of both air and oil to the wick enable the solar lamp to burn brighter, but higher priced oils like spermaceti were not required to achieve these advantageous results.
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These vessels might be laden back with spermaceti or other oils, seal skins, coals, ship-timber, fustic, or any other articles the produce of the settlements and the Southern Seas; and thus a traffic might be established and carried on with reciprocal benefit, and the independence of New South Wales must be greatly aided in consequence of these beneficial regulations.
The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811)
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You have had experience of the old - established Bull's Head stringy fowls, with lower extremities like wooden legs, sticking up out of the dish; of its cannibalic boiled mutton, gushing horribly among its capers, when carved; of its little dishes of pastry -- roofs of spermaceti ointment, erected over half an apple or four gooseberries.
The Uncommercial Traveller
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They were hunted because of spermaceti, which is this oil-like substance, a liquid which is found in the melon, in this part of the whale's body.
CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2007
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Other important waxes include carnauba wax and spermaceti.
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In Bénard cells, which also form on the surface of the sun, the organizing gradient is literally a temperature gradient across a viscous fluid, sometimes spermaceti, sperm whale oil.
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Important ester waxes include carnauba wax, lanolin, beeswax, and spermaceti.
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The valuable products of whaling, including whale oil, whalebone, and spermaceti for candle-making, provided the bulk of NSW's exports during the 1830s.
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_Spermaceti_: An oily substance found in the head of a species of whale called the spermaceti whale.
American Woman's Home
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Almost the only material used for artificially heightening the apparent proportion of stearoptene is said to be spermaceti, which is easily recognizable from its liability to settle down in a solid cake, and from its melting at 122° Fahr., whereas stearoptene fuses at 91. 4° Fahr.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
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Kokam butter, as found in the bazaars of India, consists of egg-shaped or concavo-convex cakes of a dirty white or yellowish colour, friable, crystalline, and with a greasy feel like spermaceti.
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Other important waxes include carnauba wax and spermaceti.
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Melt together over a water bath white wax and spermaceti each one ounce, camphor two ounces, sweet almond oil, one pound, then triturate until the mixture has become homogeneous, and allow one pound of rose-water to flow in slowly during the operation.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home
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However, these animal- and plant-derived oils, such as colza, olive, and spermaceti, were generally of such weight and viscosity that they would travel only one to two inches up a wick.
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But Cuvier, since then, has fully proved that these so-termed bones of giants were in reality fossil remains of mammoths, megatheriums, mastodons, and similar extinct brutes; and that the giant's teeth’ found in many museums, had once graced the jaw-bones of spermaceti whales.
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Now, had Tashtego perished in that head, it had been a very precious perishing; smothered in the very whitest and daintiest of fragment spermaceti; coffined, hearsed, and tombed in the secret inner chamber and sanctum sanctorum of the whale.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
