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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 748 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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COLZA OIL , a non-drying oil obtained from the seeds of Brassica campestris, See also:

var. oleifera, a variety of the plant which produces See also:

SWEDISH

Swedish turnips. Colza is extensively cultivated in See also:

France, See also:

Belgium, See also:

Holland and See also:

Germany; and, especially in the first-named See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, the expression of the oil is an important See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry. In See also:

commerce colza is classed with See also:

rape oil, to which both in source and properties it is very closely allied. It is a comparatively inodorous oil of a yellow See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour, having a specific gravity varying from 0.912 to 0.920. The cake See also:

LEFT

left after expression of the oil is a valuable feeding substance for See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle. Colza oil is extensively used as a lubricant for machinery, and for burning in lamps.

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