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The qulliq [1] or kudlik [2] (Inuktitut: ᖁᓪᓕᖅ, romanized: qulliq, IPA:; Greenlandic: qulleq; Inupiaq: naniq), is the traditional oil lamp used by many circumpolar peoples, including the Inuit, the Chukchi [3] and the Yupik peoples. [4] The fuel is seal-oil or blubber, and the lamp is made of soapstone. [5]
Also widely used were animal fats (butter, ghee, fish oil, shark liver, whale blubber, or seal). Camphine , made of purified spirits of turpentine , and burning fluid, a mixture of turpentine and alcohol, were sold as lamp fuels starting in the 1830s as the whale oil industry declined.
Whalers boiling blubber on the deck of their ship (1874 illustration) Whale oil has low viscosity (lower than olive oil), [8] is clear, and varies in color from a bright honey yellow to a dark brown, according to the condition of the blubber from which it has been extracted and the refinement through which it went. [9] It has a strong fishy odor.
However, one of the two main types of pottery used was the blubber lamp, a small, oval deep dish in which you ignited a chunk of blubber or even oil with a wick. The widespread use of this lamp implies a widespread industry to obtain blubber; i.e., professional whale and seal hunting.
Lipid-rich, collagen fiber-laced blubber comprises the hypodermis [2] and covers the whole body, except for parts of the appendages. It is strongly attached to the musculature and skeleton by highly organized, fan-shaped networks of tendons and ligaments, can comprise up to 50 per cent of the body mass of some marine mammals during some points in their lives, and can range from 5 cm (2 in ...
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The Argand lamp is a type of oil lamp invented in 1780 by Aimé Argand. Its output is 6 to 10 candelas , brighter than that of earlier lamps. Its more complete combustion of the candle wick and oil than in other lamps required much less frequent trimming of the wick.