Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
ozocerite or mineral wax.
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There exists a large mining and manufacturing industry in Austria, that of ozokerite, or earth-wax, which has nothing like it in any other part of the known world, an industry that supplies Europe with a part of its beeswax, without the aid of the bees.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 Various
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