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Biographies of Scots and Scots Descendants (Y) Young, James
(1811-1883) - founded the petroleum industry
by producing paraffin from oil shale in the Lothians of Scotland. He
coined the word "cracking" still used by the world’s
oil-refining industry to mean the chemical process by which various
products such as gasoline are extracted from crude oil.
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