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shale oil
noun
- petroleum distilled from oil shale.
shale oil
noun
- an oil distilled from shales and used as fuel
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Word History and Origins
Origin of shale oil1
First recorded in 1855–60
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Example Sentences
Attempts to export shale oil and gas, for example, have run smack into legal and regulatory barriers as old as a Gran Torino.
From The Daily Beast
Which, probably not coincidentally, is well under the break-even price for shale oil projects.
From The Daily Beast
It probably isn't headed back to $20 a barrel any time soon; at that price, shale oil projects wouldn't be economic.
From The Daily Beast
On mixing this soda-tar with dilute acid, the "crude shale oil creosote" separates, and is measured off.
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