Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fissile rock composed of layers of claylike, fine-grained sediments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To take off the shell or coat of.
- noun Clay, or argillaceous material, which has a fissile structure, or which splits readily into thin leaves.
- noun A shell or husk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
- noun (Geol.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
- noun See under
Bituminous . - transitive verb To take off the shell or coat of; to shell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
- noun geology A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
- verb To take off the shell or coat of.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Heating oil shale to a sufficiently high temperature will drive off a vapor which processing can distill (retort) to yield a petroleum-like shale oil-a form of non-conventional oil-and combustible shale gas (the term shale gas can also refer to gas occurring naturally in shales).
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Heating oil shale to a sufficiently high temperature will drive off a vapor which processing can distill (retort) to yield a petroleum-like shale oil-a form of non-conventional oil-and combustible shale gas (the term shale gas can also refer to gas occurring naturally in shales).
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Heating oil shale to a sufficiently high temperature will drive off a vapor which processing can distill (retort) to yield a petroleum-like shale oil-a form of non-conventional oil-and combustible shale gas (the term shale gas can also refer to gas occurring naturally in shales).
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Heating oil shale to a sufficiently high temperature will drive off a vapor which processing can distill (retort) to yield a petroleum-like shale oil-a form of non-conventional oil-and combustible shale gas (the term shale gas can also refer to gas occurring naturally in shales).
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Heating oil shale to a sufficiently high temperature will drive off a vapor which processing can distill (retort) to yield a petroleum-like shale oil-a form of non-conventional oil-and combustible shale gas (the term shale gas can also refer to gas occurring naturally in shales).
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Heating oil shale to a sufficiently high temperature will drive off a vapor which processing can distill (retort) to yield a petroleum-like shale oil-a form of non-conventional oil-and combustible shale gas (the term shale gas can also refer to gas occurring naturally in shales).
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Bloomberg News Drilling in shale-gas formations, as here near Montrose, Pa., has contributed to a near-record U.S. supplies of natural gas.
Natural Gas Falls on Storage Glut Matt Day 2010
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India plans to sign an initial agreement with the U.S. in shale gas exploration, as it prepares to auction blocks by the end of next year to tap the fuel source, top oil ministry officials said.
World Watch 2010
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MUMBAI -- India plans to sign an initial agreement with the U.S. in shale gas exploration, as it prepares to auction blocks by the end of next year to tap the fuel source, top oil ministry officials said Monday.
India Plans to Sign Shale Gas Pact With U.S. Eric Yep 2010
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The amount of water it takes to get that oil shale is pretty much all the water we have.
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