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How to use spermaceti in a sentence

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Important ester waxes include carnauba wax, lanolin, beeswax, and spermaceti.
The Sperm whale is the largest whale, and it's oil, called spermaceti, is the most valuable.
Oil is contained in the spermaceti organ and in the spermaceti bodies of the junk.
Still, whale-related products remained in high demand, especially the fine oil derived from spermaceti.
It was then that spermaceti, which is made from the oil of the sperm whale came on the scene.
From 1700 for two centuries, thousands of sperm whales were killed and the oil in their heads called spermaceti was used to make candles.
The most striking morphological feature is the huge spermaceti organ in the head, filled with up to 1900 litres of waxy oil.
The function of the spermaceti organ has not yet been conclusively demonstrated.
Some ziphiids are pursued by whalers for their oil and spermaceti.
The knobbly surface reflects sound waves that come through the spermaceti organ from the phonic lips.
The sound then travels backwards along the length of the nose through the spermaceti organ.
However, if the whale matures and the size of the spermaceti organ increases, the tone of the whale's click will also change.
Scientists soon found that Natural Jojoba could not only replace spermaceti in all applications but discovered that it was actually superior to it.
The spermaceti at the core of the organ has a higher wax content than the outer areas.
At the posterior end of this spermaceti complex is the frontal sac, which covers the concave surface of the cranium.
Atop the whale's skull is positioned a large complex of organs filled with a liquid mixture of fats and waxes called spermaceti.
The case can hold within it up to 1,900 litres of spermaceti.
The spermaceti organs may also help adjust the whale's buoyancy.
Examples from Classical Literature
Simmer the whole together, and when almost boiled enough, add an ounce of spermaceti.
You are made of spermaceti ointment and you've lymph in your veins instead of blood.
In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.
But these Siberian hunters are alive during our time, and their quarry is the fur of a sable, rather than the spermaceti of a whale.
And so the appellation must at last have come to be bestowed upon the whale from which this spermaceti was really derived.
In those times, also, spermaceti was exceedingly scarce, not being used for light, but only as an ointment and medicament.
In 1714, it was discovered that a sperm whale had a cavity above its brain containing as much as 500 gallons of white oil that burned cleanly, which was named spermaceti.
In this book is an outline purporting to be a Picture of a Physeter or Spermaceti whale, drawn by scale from one killed on the coast of Mexico, August, and hoisted on deck.
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