boiled oil

Either raw or boiled oil may be used.

Raw linseed may be better on light coloured woods because its darkening effect is less than boiled oil.

Modern boiled oils use a lead-free metallic drier added cold, such as cobalt resinate.

Discovering that all but one contained a thief, she boiled oil from the remaining jar and filled the others with the scalding liquid to kill the men inside.

Linseed and boiled linseed oil are the traditional types but both are slow drying; linseed oil takes approximately 3 days and boiled oil 24 hours.

Linseed oil was also widely used for the production of oilcloth, a waterproof covering and rainwear material, formed by coating linen or cotton fabrics with the boiled oil.

The painter then prepares small quantities of the same color with a little brown, and boiled oil and turpentine, and, having mixed this, spreads it over some small part of his work.

Boiled oil is the raw oil heated with driers, such as litharge or red lead, to a temperature from 350 to 500 F, at which it is maintained for three or four hours.

Petroleum coke was first made in the 1860s in the early oil refineries in Pennsylvania which boiled oil in small, iron distillation stills to recover kerosene, a much needed lamp oil.