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spermaceti
noun
spermaceti
spermaceti candle

spermaceti N

spermaceti

spermaceti CHEM
شمع العنبر
spermaceti CHEM
شمع حوت العنبر

spermaceti candle LIGHT

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This solid was then bleached white and sold as spermaceti wax.
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The spermaceti organs may also help adjust the whale's buoyancy.
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Spermaceti is insoluble in water, very slightly soluble in cold alcohol, but easily dissolved in ether, chloroform, carbon disulfide, and boiling alcohol.
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Spermaceti was used in lubricants, oil lamps, and candles.
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Below the spermaceti organ lies the junk (so-called because many whalers dismissed this part as a worthwhile source of oil), which consists of compartments of spermaceti separated by cartilage.
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The harvested matter, raw spermaceti, was stored in casks to be processed back on land.
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It has a very long zygomatic process, probably for housing the spermaceti organ.
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Later they built a chocolate mill and spermaceti and salt factories.
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Unfortunately, he attributed this to the solidification of the fluid he was using (spermaceti, a whale oil that is solid at room temperature).
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The first standard candles were made from spermaceti wax.
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