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  2. Sperm oil - Wikipedia

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    The following year, the US Congress amended the Endangered Species Act, outlawing the killing of whales and the use of their oil. [25] The loss of sperm oil had a profound impact in the automotive industry, [26] where for example, transmission failures rose from under 1 million in 1972 to over 8 million by 1975. [25] Sperm oil was a popular ...

  3. Spermaceti - Wikipedia

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    Spermaceti is taken from the spermaceti organ (yellow) and junk (orange) within the sperm whale's head. Raw spermaceti is liquid within the head of the sperm whale, and is said to have a smell similar to raw milk. [8] It is composed mostly of wax esters (chiefly cetyl palmitate) and a smaller proportion of triglycerides. [9]

  4. Whale oil - Wikipedia

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    A bottle of whale oil. Whale oil is oil obtained from the blubber of whales. [1] Oil from the bowhead whale was sometimes known as train-oil, which comes from the Dutch word traan ("tear drop"). Sperm oil, a special kind of oil used in the cavities of sperm whales, differs chemically from ordinary whale oil: it is composed mostly of liquid wax ...

  5. Sperm whale - Wikipedia

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    Sperm whales' heads are filled with a waxy substance called "spermaceti" (sperm oil), from which the whale derives its name. Spermaceti was a prime target of the whaling industry and was sought after for use in oil lamps, lubricants, and candles.

  6. Scientists are learning the basic building blocks of sperm ...

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    Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described for the first time the basic elements of how they might be talking to each other, in an effort ...

  7. Sperm whale speech — with ‘alphabet’ — is decoded. What other ...

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    Researchers of chatty creatures like bats, bees, songbirds and whales gather many hours of sound or video recordings and then plug that data into AI language models, the way we might with tools ...

  8. Sperm whaling - Wikipedia

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    Cosmetics, soap and machine oil formed the major uses of sperm whale products during this time. Sperm whale oil was still in use in automobile transmission cooling units in the United States in the 1970s. [23] In modern whaling, after the oil had been extracted the meat was usually ground down into a meal for feeding livestock.

  9. Scientists document remarkable sperm whale 'phonetic ... - AOL

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    Sperm whales, Sharma said, also use a two-level combination of features to form codas, and codas are then sequenced together as the whales communicate. The lower level has similarities to letters ...