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Cottonseed oil   Listen
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Cottonseed oil  n.  A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure (sp. gr.,.92-.93). and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils.






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"Cottonseed oil" Quotes from Famous Books



... are dependent upon dyes. Chief of these is of course textiles, using more than half the dyes; next come leather, paper, paint and ink. We have been importing more than $12,000,000 worth of coal-tar products a year, but the cottonseed oil we exported in 1912 would alone suffice to pay that bill twice over. But although the manufacture of dyes cannot be called a big business, in comparison with some others, it is a paying business when well managed. The German concerns paid on an average 22 per cent. dividends ...
— Creative Chemistry - Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries • Edwin E. Slosson



Words linked to "Cottonseed oil" :   vegetable oil, cottonseed, oil



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