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oil shale

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oil shale

Summary

oil shale ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,470 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • oil shale is a type of sapropelite[2].
  • oil shale is a type of fossil fuel[3].
  • oil shale is a type of carbon schist[4].
  • oil shale is a type of marl[5].
  • oil shale's Commons category is recorded as Oil shale[6].
  • oil shale's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Oil shale[7].
  • oil shale's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • oil shale's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[9].
  • oil shale's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[10].
  • oil shale's different from is recorded as shale[11].
  • oil shale's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_02000119[12].
  • oil shale's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include sapropelite[2], fossil fuel[3], carbon schist[4], and marl[5].

Why It Matters

oil shale ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,470 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → shale
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Oil shale
    Local thumb → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 38182, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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