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Mini 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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