whales). Spermaceti is created in the spermaceti organ inside the whale's head. This organ may contain as much as 1,900 litres (500 US gal) of spermaceti. It...
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The spermaceti organ is an organ present in the heads of toothed whales of the family Physeteroidea, in particular the sperm whale. This organ contains...
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Sperm whale (redirect from Spermaceti whale)
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...
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Sperm oil (redirect from Spermaceti oil)
not current) Rust-Oleum.[citation needed] A spermaceti press Strained sperm oil being bottled A spermaceti wax candle Sperm whales celebrate the discovery...
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Livyatan (section Spermaceti organ)
whales by the basin on the skull spanning the length of the snout. The spermaceti organ contained in that basin is thought to have been used in echolocation...
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prized blubber and spermaceti had been extracted from the whale, the remaining majority of the carcass was discarded. Spermaceti oil came solely from...
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the spermaceti organ and the "junk". The junk is structurally the same as the melon (homologous to it). The melon is not homologous to the spermaceti organ...
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the melon, separated by a thin membrane, is the spermaceti organ. Both the melon and the spermaceti organ are encased in a thick fibrous coat, resembling...
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its use was banned in the US in 1980. It is a long-running myth that spermaceti from whales has still been used in NASA projects such as the Hubble Space...
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and beeswax in Europe from the Roman period until the modern era, when spermaceti (from sperm whales) was used in the 18th and 19th centuries, and purified...
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