Almost equally important in Bissell s idea and Silliman s discovery was the use of rock oil for lubrication of the many moving parts in the mechanical age soon to come.
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Leaving him behind, Asterix and Obelix make contact with Ekonomikrisis'supplier, Samson Alius, who directs them to Babylon on grounds that the rock oil in Jerusalem has been destroyed by the Romans.
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In Rome, Julius Caesar hears of this, and orders M . Devius Surreptitius, the head of rock oil, which he requires to make the magic potion enabling the Gaulish resistance to Rome.
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Near the coast of Gaul, Dubbelosix grabs hold of the waterskin of rock oil and, as he tries to force it open, Obelix leaps upon him, which spills the oil into the sea.
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Extracted hydrocarbons in a liquid form are referred to as petroleum ( literally " rock oil " ) or mineral oil, whereas hydrocarbons in a gaseous form are referred to as natural gas.
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Ignacy Aukasiewicz improved Gesner's method to develop a means of refining kerosene from the more readily available " rock oil " ( " petr-oleum " ) refinery in the mature oil fields at Baku in 1861.
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At the time, however, Bissell and Eveleth simply brought some people together to form the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company -shortly after to be renamed the Seneca Oil Company, after another common, regional name for petroleum.
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In 1853 he observed by chance the primitive oil-gathering industry in western Pennsylvania, although his interest in what was then known as " rock oil " had been piqued by seeing samples while a student at Dartmouth College.
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In the late 1850s Seneca Oil Company ( formerly the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company ) sent Col . Edwin L . Drake, to start drilling on a piece of leased land just south of Titusville near what is now Oil Creek State Park.
