palm-kernel oil

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palm-kernel oil (countable and uncountable, plural palm-kernel oils)

  1. Alternative form of palm kernel oil.
    • 1879 September 22, “Light from Liberia. A Bright Spot upon a Dark Country ”, in The Times, number 1469, Philadelphia, Pa., →OCLC, page , column 3:
      As it still stands in the Main Centennial Building that exhibition is of great interest, including in its display such valuable native products as coffee, palm oil, palm kernels, indigo, cocoa, ivory, iron ore, sugar, palm soap, palm-kernel oil, arrowroot, ginger, cam wood, hard wood and Liberian rubber.
    • 1903 June 30, C. A. M, “Elaeis Guineensis; Fruit and Oils from —— . G. Fendler. , Rep. 128.">…]”, in Watson Smith, editor, The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, volume XXII, number 12, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, , →ISSN, →OCLC, page 751, column 1:
      The characteristics of the palm-kernel oils were as follows:—Melting-point, 28°–30° C;
    • 2010 October 28, Richard Read, “SolarWorld: Solar energy ‘democratic,’ Asbeck says”, in The Oregonian, volume 160, number 53,945, Portland, Ore.: Oregonian Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page C4, column 2:
      After college, Asbeck rode a motorcycle through Africa, settling in Nigeria, where he started businesses repairing and selling machinery and processing palm-kernel oil for soap.