The French physical standard Carcel lamp consisted of a cylindrical Argand burner, and gave the standard brightness when 42 grammes of colza oil were consumed per hour.
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Colza, a less spicy cousin used for cooking oil, replaced mustard in agricultural production more than 20 years ago, encouraged by French and European Union subsidies.
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Among the more unusual applications of colza oil is the calming of choppy seas, where the oil modifies the surface tension of the water and rapidly smooths the surface.
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The Argand lamp used whale oil, colza, olive oil or other vegetable oil as fuel which was supplied by a gravity feed from a reservoir mounted above the burner.
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An Argand lamp used whale oil, colza, olive oil or other vegetable oil as fuel which was supplied by a gravity feed from a reservoir mounted above the burner.
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The original light source was a kerosene burner, the first of its kind in New South Wales, rather than colza oil one as used by other lighthouses of that period.
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First, the Commission said in a statement, France failed to pass the dossiers seeking approval of the GM colza seed to the Commission within 90 days, as required by its rules.
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The unit was defined as that illumination emanating from a lamp burning pure colza oil ( obtained from the seed of the plant " Brassica campestris " ) at a defined rate.
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The Commission said it was citing France for failing to act on two stages of the approval of two varieties of colza seed, also known as rape seed, used to make vegetable oil.
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The anti-globalization crusader was one of nine people convicted by a court in the southern town of Foix for their roles in destroying an experimental colza plant field in nearby Gaudies in April 2000.
