whale oil造句怎么写

The refined kerosene could be used in lamps, replacing the more expensive whale oil.

"Oil" means any persistent oil such as crude oil fuel oil heavy diesel oil lubricating oil and whale oil whether carried on board a ship as cargo or in the bunkers of such a ship.

High demand and rising prices for whale oil spurred a search for and investment in the 19th-century version of alternative energy.

Without whale oil, so the thinking went, the world would slide backward toward darkness.

There is also an altar lamp burning whale oil.

Although Westerners were once reliant on whale oil for lighting, we never actually ran out of whales.