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Easily split rock
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shale
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Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments ( silt -sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite . The ratio of clay to other minerals is variable. Shale ...
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Hydrocarbon Oils -- Scotch Shale Oils -- Petroleum -- Vegetable and Animal Oils -- Testing and Adulteration of Oils -- Lubricating Greases -- Lubrication -- Appendices -- Index.
Herbie, a massasauga rattlesnake, dry beaded patience coiled under a ledge of gray shale, the only item in the room, besides the cash register, not for sale.
Jus nodded and led the boy up and away from the streets, looking out across the shale rooves of Keggle Bend.
Brick mortar shaled from his shoes and fell on her head and shoulders as he twisted on the rope and his feet kicked against the wall.
The local committee has asked Shaler to go to Holland and from there to England to purchase as much food as possible, make arrangements for sending it across the frontier and investigate the chances of getting future supplies.
I got up as late as I decently could and went down to the Embassy to find Shaler and Couchman waiting for me.
I got back to the Embassy, from my visit to the Stores, I found Shaler waiting for me with the news that I was expected at a meeting at Mr.
Hoover arrived on Sunday evening, accompanied by Shaler and by three representatives of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Millard Shaler, the American mining engineer, who had just come back from the Congo, came in with his amusing Belgian friend who had been telling us for weeks about the wonderful new car in which he was investing.
After hurried preparation Shaler got away this afternoon with young Couchman by way of Liege.
Late this afternoon we got a telegram from the Consul at Liege, stating that Shaler and Couchman had been arrested in that city because they were carrying private letters to be posted when they got to England.
A telegram has just been received from Liege, saying that Shaler and Couchman have been released and are on their way to Holland.
Thursday morning I got up as late as I decently could and went down to the Embassy to find Shaler and Couchman waiting for me.
When I got back to the Embassy, from my visit to the Stores, I found Shaler waiting for me with the news that I was expected at a meeting at Mr.
Hoover arrived from London this afternoon accompanied by Shaler and by Dr.