It is extensively adulterated with poppy, nut, and teel oil, and not unfrequently with refined rape or colza oil.
Compared with vegetable colza oil, its illuminating power is in the proportion of 3 to 2.
If it is necessary to keep colored inks, the best way of preserving them so that they shall be workable after standing some time is to pour a little colza oil on the top, and securely close the vessel containing them.
It is not easy to alter this, but colza oil will at least prevent the surface skinning over.
In the first division the lamps are constructed to burn colza or sperm oil; in the second division a mineral oil (purified paraffin) takes the place of the sperm or colza oil; and in the third division some form of lime-light is employed.
If, however, sperm oil cannot be obtained, colza oil may be substituted, and this should be treated with camphor in the same way.
We have given a description of the simpler forms of the magic-lantern burning sperm or colza oil with a solid wick, and now we will explain the construction of that known as the phantasmagoria lantern.
First, then, let us deal with the lanterns illuminated by a lamp burning colza or sperm oil.
Put the latter in a saucer, and a drop or two of olive or colza oil over it.
Colza gave a good increase with similar strengths, but with turnips 1 gm.
It sent its apples and eggs, its poultry and honey, its colza and corn to the use of the great cities; but it was rarely that any of its own people went thither.
Because the flax and the colza blossom for use, and the garden flowers grow trained and pruned, must there be no bud that opens for mere love of the sun, and swings free in the wind in its fearless fair fashion?
The ground ascended as it stretched seaward, but on it there were only wide dull fields of colza or of grass lying, sickly and burning, under the fire of the late afternoon sun.
It sent its apples and eggs, its poultry and honey, its colza and corn, to the use of the great cities; but it was rarely that any of its own people went thither.
Colza impoverishes the soil very much, as do, indeed, all the plants cultivated for the sake of their oleaginous seeds.
Colza may also be sowed in furrows 8 or 10 inches asunder.
Wheat and rye are the leading cereal crops; oats come next in importance, barley and colza occupying a relatively small area.
In commerce colza is classed with rape oil, to which both in source and properties it is very closely allied.
Colza oil is extensively used as a lubricant for machinery, and for burning in lamps.
COLZA OIL, a non-drying oil obtained from the seeds of Brassica campestris, var.
He had learned also from Miss Colza, that Miss Mackenzie had certainly quarrelled with Lady Ball, and that she had, so Miss Colza believed, been turned out of the house at the Cedars.
It was a pity that Maguire had not learned--that Miss Colza had not been able to tell him--that the lion had once before expressed his wish to take the lamb for his wife.
Miss Colza still continued to live there, and still continued very much in arrear in her contributions to the household fund.
Nevertheless Miss Colza and Mr Rubb were somewhat disconcerted, and expressed their surprise at seeing Miss Mackenzie.
Miss Colza paid her eighteen shillings a week for board and lodging, and that was now two weeks in arrear; and one bedroom was let to a young man employed in the oilcloth factory, at seven shillings a week.
But yet she felt that she did not like Miss Colza, and once or twice felt almost inclined to resent certain pushing questions which Miss Colza addressed to her.
Mr Maguire had now enlisted Miss Colza in his service, and had told Miss Colza what had occurred.
Mademoiselle Colza I ought to call her, because her father was a Portuguese.
Miss Mackenzie, having some kindly feeling towards Mr Rubb, would have preferred to hear that Miss Colzawas likely to become Mrs Maguire.
Miss Mackenzie declined to discuss the subject, and assured Mrs Tom that she only recommended the banishment of Miss Colzabecause of her apparent unwillingness to pay.
But he was a persistent man, and, having ascertained that Miss Colza was possessed of some small share in her brother's business in the city, he thought it expedient to betake himself again to London.
On the Gulf Rock there were nearly 3,000 gallons of colza oil stored in the tanks beneath, colza being used in preference to paraffin because it was safer, and there was no storage accommodation apart from the lighthouse.
To end the intolerable strain of his thoughts Stephen Brand forced his lips to a thin smile and his voice to say harshly: "If the worst comes to the worst, there are more than three thousand gallons of colza oil in store.
When they begin to diet on colza there will be trouble.
A fresh breeze was blowing; the rye and colza were sprouting, little dewdrops trembled at the roadsides and on the hawthorn hedges.
Besides, the poor old chap, if it hadn't been for the colza last year, would have had much ado to pay up his arrears.
But, a few days later, when cabbage and colza are beginning to flower, the bees will turn their attention to these alone, neglecting the woods almost entirely, for all the abundance that still may be found there.
Although many kinds were used locally, only colza and sperm oils had any very extended use, and they have been practically supplanted by mineral oil, which was introduced as an illuminant in 1853.
He was saturated in colza oil, and the smashed tin lay beside him, but luckily the flame had been extinguished by his fall.
At a quarter to two he had been seen running down the Euston Road towards Baker Street, flourishing a can of burning colza oil and jerking splashes of flame therefrom at the windows of the houses he passed.
The colzawas thin; the oats only middling; and the corn sold very badly on account of its smell.
Then they came to an apartment in which a window of the Valois period, chased so as to resemble ivory, let in the sun, which heated the grains of colza that strewed the floor.
The number obtained by Koettstorfer for colzawas 178.
The specific gravity of rape oil and colza oil, both of which are obtained from species of the genius Brassica, varies from 913.
Colza oil is recognized by mixing 5 volumes of the sample to be examined, with 1 volume of sulphuric acid of sp.
Like all the oleaginous plants cultivated for their seed, colza greatly impoverishes the soil.
The oil of thecolza is much used in Europe, and highly prized.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colza" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
