Meanings
plural palm-kernel oils
- alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of palm kernel oil.
The characteristics of the palm-kernel oils were as follows:—Melting-point, 28°–30° C; […]
1903 June 30, C. A. M[itchell], “Elaeis Guineensis; Fruit and Oils from —— [Palm and Palm-kernel Oils]. G. Fendler. […]”, in Watson Smith, editor, The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, volume XXII, number 12, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 751, column 12 more examples
As it still stands in the Main Centennial Building that exhibition is of great interest, including in its display such valuable native products as coffee, palm oil, palm kernels, indigo, cocoa, ivory, iron ore, sugar, palm soap, palm-kernel oil, arrowroot, ginger, cam wood, hard wood and Liberian rubber.
1879 September 22, “Light from Liberia. A Bright Spot upon a Dark Country […]”, in The Times, number 1469, Philadelphia, Pa., →OCLC, page [4], column 3After college, Asbeck rode a motorcycle through Africa, settling in Nigeria, where he started businesses repairing and selling machinery and processing palm-kernel oil for soap.
2010 October 28, Richard Read, “SolarWorld: Solar energy ‘democratic,’ Asbeck says”, in The Oregonian, volume 160, number 53,945, Portland, Ore.: Oregonian Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page C4, column 2
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