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jelly
(redirected from petroleum jelly)

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jelly [′jelĀ·ē]
(geology)


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Place slides covered with petroleum jelly around the schoolyard.
The most prominent visual icons here are a large, cruciform mold that Barney fills with petroleum jelly and puts through various dissections and gooey collapses, and a huge chunk of ambergris - the fragrant whale spew beloved of perfumers the world over - that's discovered by a gaggle of pearl-diving girls.
On the inside, a glass slide covered with a thin layer of petroleum jelly catches spores as air passes through the tube.
 
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