Meaning of doegling | Babel Free

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A northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus), from which oil was once obtained.

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“This acid is, moreover, not combined with oxide of lipyl in the Doegling train-oil, (at least it yields no glycerine on saponification,) but probably with doeglic oxide, C₂₄H₂₅O, a body similar to the ether-like haloid bases, whose existence and composition Scharling, however, only infers from the analysis of the unsaponified Doegling train-oil and the absence of glycerine.”

“Doegling Train Oil. From the doegling (the Balœna rostrata of Chemnitz, Hyperodon of later zoologists), a kind of dolphin.”

“An ointment base said to be a mixture of soap, carnauba wax, and doegling oil.”

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