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bone oil

noun

  1. a fetid, tarry liquid obtained in the dry distillation of bone.


bone oil

noun

  1. a dark brown pungent oil, containing pyridine and hydrocarbons, obtained by the destructive distillation of bones


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Bone Oil is made from the fat obtained by boiling the bones of animals.

As already stated, both series occur in coal-tar and the pyridine series also more abundantly in bone-oil.

It is a form of bone oil, a product obtained in the manufacture of bone-black, or animal charcoal, by the distillation of bones.

Bone oil and rectified bone oil are commonly sold for it, but are inferior to it.

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