spermaceti
IPA: spˈɝmʌsˈɛti
noun
- A wax obtained from the head of sperm whales and used to make cosmetics etc.
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Examples of "spermaceti" in Sentences
- This is made into what you call spermaceti candles.
- A large whale would have as much as three tons of spermaceti.
- The junk contains spermaceti oil as well as connective tissue.
- As for spermaceti and sperm oil, I'm pretty sure you are correct.
- It was the sperm oil that was used in these industries, not spermaceti.
- Spermaceti was a wax obtained by crystallizing the oil of a sperm whale.
- Spermaceti is the semi liquid, waxy substance found in the sperm whale's head.
- It used a supply of good liquid oil, such as spermaceti whale oil as the fuel.
- For spermaceti, a type of fat that sperm whales have in their bump on the head.
- The case consists of a soft white, waxy substance saturated with spermaceti oil.
- Candles were also made from spermaceti, which is a substance taken from the head of the sperm whale.
- _Spermaceti_: An oily substance found in the head of a species of whale called the spermaceti whale.
- _Spermaceti_, an oily substance, found in the head of a species of whale, called the spermaceti whale.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.