Recent Examples on the WebBirol said that the conflict could rock oil markets, 50 years after the world was plunged into an energy crisis by an Arab oil embargo triggered by the 1973 Yom Kippur war.—Anna Cooban, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023 Distilling rock oil produced multiple interesting compounds, one of which looked like an ideal illuminant.—Charles R. Morris, WSJ, 21 June 2018
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