oil shale

English

Noun

oil shale (usually uncountable, plural oil shales)

1. a sedimentary rock containing kerogen from which petroleum-like shale oil can be produced by pyrolysis, hydrogenation, or thermal dissolution.

Synonyms

• kerogen shale

Related terms

• shale oil

Translations

shale from which hydrocarbons can be produced

• Danish: olieskifer
• Dutch: olieschalie (nl)
• Estonian: põlevkivi
• Finnish: öljyliuske (fi)
• German: Ölschiefer
• Icelandic: olíuleirsteinn m
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• Italian: scisto bituminoso m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oljeskifer m

  Nynorsk: oljeskifer m

• Swedish: oljeskiffer

Anagrams

• shale oil