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A light hydrocarbon oil resembling kerosene It is obtained by distilling coal paraffin etc and is used as a lubricant illuminant etc...
Agreements
Agreements, means the Air Services Agreements or Air Transport Agreements entered into by India with parties to the Convention. [Foreign Aircraft (Exemption from Taxes and Duties on Fuel and Lubricants), Act (36 of 2002), s. 2(a)]...
Repairer
Repairer, includes a person who adjusts, cleans, lubricants or paints any weight or measure or renders any other service to such weight or mea-sure to ensure that such weight or measure conforms to the standards established by or under this Act. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(u)]...
Declaration of London, 1909
Declaration of London, 1909. A suggested International agreement to settle doubts concerning inter alia the application of the doctrines of contraband, neutral destination and continuous voyage. A list of three classes of goods was made: (1) absolute contraband or munitions of war; (2) conditionally contraband, or foodstuffs, forage, money, railway materials, fuel, lubricants, barbed wire and optical instruments; (3) not contraband, or any raw textile materials, rubber, hides, metallic ores, earths. Eleven countries signed the convention. With a prescience justified by the developments of science and the uncontrollable nature of a desperate war, the House of Lords refused to ratify it. In practice the declaration was followed by Great Britain and other belligerents with increasing alterations until it was formally, and finally abandoned by this country in April, 1916. A modified list of Articles absolutely or conditionally contraband was issued shortly after. See Hall or Lawrence on In...
Oil vanaspati
Oil vanaspati, vanaspati, is essentially an oil al-though it is a different kind of oil than that oil (be it rapeseed oil, cotton-seed oil, ground-nut oil, soya bean oil or any other oil) which forms its basic ingredient. Oil will remain oil if it retains its essential properties and merely because it has been subjected to certain processes would not convert it into a different substance. The word 'oil' is not defined in the Act and therefore, its dictionary meaning may well be pressed into service for interpreting the term 'oil mill'. According to Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1966 Edn.) the word 'oil' has different connotations in different situations but in the context of item 5 aforesaid the meaning to be given to would be: Any of various substances that typically are unctuous viscous combustible liquids or solids easily liquefiable on warming and are not miscible with water but are soluble in ether, naphtha, and often alcohol and other organic solvents, that leave ...
Petroleum product
Petroleum product, means any commodity made from petroleum or natural gas and shall include refined crude oil, processed crude petroleum, residuum from crude petroleum, cracking stock, uncracked fuel oil, fuel oil, treated crude oil residuum, casing head gasoline, natural gas gasoline, naphtha, distillate gasoline, kerosene, waste oil, blended gasoline, lubricating oil, blends or mixture of oil with one or more liquid products or by-products derived from oil condensate, gas o petroleum hydrocarbons, whether herein enumer-ated or not. [Petroleum and Natural Gas Rules, 1959, s. 3(n)]...
Oilstone
A variety of hone slate or whetstone used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil...
Paraffin
A white waxy substance resembling spermaceti tasteless and odorless and obtained from coal tar wood tar petroleum etc by distillation It is used in candles as a sealing agent such as in canning of preserves as a waterproofing agent as an illuminant and as a lubricant It is very inert not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents It was formerly regarded as a definite compound but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh gas series hence by extension any substance whether solid liquid or gaseous of the same chemical series thus gasoline coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins...
Lubric
Having a smooth surface slippery...
Mucous
Of pertaining to or resembling mucus slimy ropy or stringy and lubricous as a mucous substance...
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