शुक्राणु व्हेल के तेल से एक सफेद मोमी पदार्थ

Noun:

व्हेल मछली के सिर से निकलने वाला सफेद चर्बीला पदार्थ जो मोमबत्ती आदि बनाने मे काम आता है,

spermaceti's Usage Examples:

spermaceti oil.

Alternatives: vegetable cetyl alcohol (e.g., coconut ), synthetic spermaceti.

Spermaceti >>

The oil contained in cells in this cavity, when refined, yields spermaceti, and the thick covering of blubber, which everywhere envelopes the body, produces the valuable sperm-oil of commerce.

It resembles the sperm-whale in possessing a large store of oil in the upper part of the head, which yields spermaceti when refined; on this account, and also for the sake of the blubber, which supplies an oil almost indistinguishable from sperm-oil, this whale became the object of a regular chase in the latter half of the 19th century.

Spermaceti is a comparatively unimportant article of commerce; and of Chinese wax small quantities only are imported, as the home consumption takes up the bulk of the wax for the manufacture of candles, polishes and sizes.

With lowering of the temperature stearin, accompanied with a small proportion of spermaceti, separates from the oil, and a little under the freezingpoint nearly the whole of these constituents may be crystallized out.

The most important whale-oil is sperm or spermaceti oil, yielded by the sperm-whales.

The cetyl ester is spermaceti, and the myricyl ester is largely present in beeswax.

Tallow candles as a substitute for whale-oil had been introduced, and the British market was closed by a duty of £r8 a ton on oil; a bounty offered by the Massachusetts legislature (£5 on white and £ 3 on yellow or brown spermaceti, and £2 on whale-oil per ton) was of slight assistance.

spermaceti's Meaning':

a white waxy substance from oil of the sperm whale

Synonyms:

wax,

Antonyms:

decrease, wane,