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Definition of Oil shale
1. Noun. Shale from which oil can be obtained by heating.
Definition of Oil shale
1. Noun. a dark-brown or black shale, from which petroleum-like hydrocarbons can be produced by distillation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oil Shale
Literary usage of Oil shale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"The oil-shale of Scotland is dark grey or black, and has a laminated or horny
... Oil-shale of good quality occurs in Servia, and has been found to yield ..."
2. Journal by Iron and Steel Institute (1897)
"Oil-Shale in New South Wales.—The shales worked in New South Wales are stated t
to give 50 to 150 gallons of oil per ton, and to occur over 250 miles of ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"In Kentucky the " sands " or " porous beds " near the Devonian oil shale are ...
If, for instance, a bed of oil shale like the Devonian Black Shale could be ..."
4. The American Petroleum Industry by Raymond Foss Bacon, William Allen Hamor (1916)
"About 20000000 tons of oil-shale have been proved in the properties of this ...
3.28 Tar, etc 24.65 101.00 On the oil-shale industry of Queensland, ..."
5. Opportunity 2000: Creative Affirmative Action Strategies for a Changing (1988)
"oil shale consists of a porous sandstone that is embedded with a heavy hydrocarbon
known as kerogen. Because the kerogen already contains hydrogen, ..."
6. Practical Oil Geology: The Application of Geology to Oil Field Problems by Dorsey Hager (1919)
"The distillation of the oil shale of the Green River formation will probably
yield different products, and the processes of distillation used in Scotland ..."
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