Heavy Oil

Heavy oil may refer to:

  • Fuel oil that contains residual oil left over from distillation.
  • Heavy crude oil, viscous crude oil.
  • Coal tar creosote, a wood preservative and waterproofing agent.

Famous quotes containing the words heavy and/or oil:

    “All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.”
    —Harold Bloom (b. 1930)

    “Mr. Chadband is a large yellow man, with a fat smile, and a general appearance of having a good deal of train oil in his system.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)