Sperm oil is a waxy liquid obtained from sperm whales. It is a clear, yellowish liquid with a very faint odor. Sperm oil has a different composition from...

("tear drop"). Sperm oil, a special kind of oil obtained from the head cavities of sperm whales, differs chemically from ordinary whale oil: it is composed...

extant species in the sperm whale family, along with the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale of the genus Kogia. The sperm whale is a pelagic mammal...

Sperm whaling is the human practice of hunting sperm whales, the largest toothed whale and the deepest-diving marine mammal species, for the oil, meat...

liquid was bottled and sold as "winter-strained sperm oil". This was the most valuable product - an oil that remained liquid in freezing winter temperatures...

The pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) is one of two extant species in the family Kogiidae in the sperm whale superfamily. They are not often sighted...

called "the junk" because whalers dismissed it as worthless for extracting sperm oil. It contains compartments of spermaceti separated by walls of cartilage...

It can be used for oiling machinery, and indeed has a reputation for this purpose as watch oil, but is now superseded by sperm oil. The ancient Greeks...

competition Sperm donation Sperm granuloma Sperm guidance Sperm heteromorphism Sperm motility Sperm precedence Sperm sorting Sperm theft Sperm washing Catch...

sperm oil and 820 barrels of whale oil. 9th whaling voyage (1836–1837): Captain Hand sailed in 1836 and returned in 1837 with 90 barrels of sperm oil...

the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage. A contribution...

porpoises, and all other whales with teeth, such as beaked whales and the sperm whales. 73 species of toothed whales are described. They are one of two...

eases sperm specimen collection by masturbation. Commonly used lubricants include saliva, oil (such as baby oil, olive oil, canola oil, or mineral oil) or...

Livyatan is an extinct genus of macroraptorial sperm whale containing one known species: L. melvillei. The genus name was inspired by the biblical sea...

jojoba contain about 52% oil, 97% of which are wax esters. These wax esters, which are monounsaturated, are very similar to sperm oil. Marine organisms like...

a sexual partner. Sperm sold by a sperm donor is known as donor sperm. A sperm bank may be a separate entity supplying donor sperm to individuals or to...

Banks. Rockingham returned the next year with 19½ tuns of sperm oil and 20½ tuns of whale oil. Rockingham left on 10 October 1776 for the Brazil Banks...

Macroraptorial sperm whales were highly predatory whales of the sperm whale superfamily (Physeteroidea) of the Miocene epoch that hunted large marine mammals...

America. Montezuma returned in May 1847 with 60 barrels of sperm oil, 3350 barrels of whale oil, and 34,000 pounds of whalebone. Whaling voyage #3 (1848-1851):...

fertility, a measure of the ability of sperm in semen to accomplish fertilization. Semen quality involves both sperm quantity and quality. Semen quality...

barrels of oil. Globe sailed from Nantucket on 4 October 1815, bound for the Pacific. She returned on 1 January 1818 with 1890 barrels of sperm oil and 125...

remaining majority of the carcass was discarded. Spermaceti oil came solely from the head-case of sperm whales. It was processed by pressing the material rather...

fuel for lighthouses, replacing various fuels such as sperm oil, Colza oil, rapeseed oil, and lard oil. In 1884, uniforms came into use by all members of...

arrived in 1745 (died 1789). Rivera introduced the manufacture of sperm oil, derived from sperm whales. This became one of Newport's leading industries and...

He returned to Warren in 1837 with some 1000 barrels of sperm oil and 2000 barrels of whale oil. 3rd whaling voyage (1834–1837): Captain Lewis sailed Warren...

carnauba wax, Japan wax, bayberry wax, paraffin, petroleum jelly, sperm oil, castor oil, stearyl alcohol, lauryl alcohol, graphite, molybdenum disulphide...

the Hero 1822-1824, which returned to Nantucket with 2,173 barrels of sperm oil, he discovered an island on 5 September 1823, located at 5°32' S, 155°5'...

providing the economic basis for the sperm whaling industry. A sperm whale may contain as much as 1,900 liters of this oil. The morphology of the nasal complex...

Peru on 2 July, and on 30 November on the coast of Peru with 50 tons of sperm oil As Britannia was returning to Britain, a French privateer captured her...

resulted in 59 whales being processed for 1,600 barrels of sperm oil, 800 barrels of right whale oil, and five tons of whale bone.: 61  Charles W. Morgan made...