Complete Definition of "oil shale"

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Noun
oil shale

  1. a dark-brown or black shale, from which petroleum-like hydrocarbons can be produced by distillation

Related terms
shale oil

Translations

Danish: olieskifer
Dutch: olieschalie
Estonian: põlevkivi
mid
Finnish: öljyliuske
German: �lschiefer
Swedish: oljeskiffer

Category:English nouns
Category:Geology

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