So it's worth giving your rear mech a few shots of lube every time you lubricate your chain.

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Drilling engineers use tons of a thick fluid called drilling mud to lubricate drill bits as they chew through rock.

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And even the black goo used by the ancient Romans to lubricate their chariot axels was a petroleum-based form of natural tar.

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There are those 750 million vehicles, and all the oil going to heat homes and to lubricate machines and to provide the ingredients for plastics.

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But the Irishman's plans to lubricate his commentary box performance suffered a blow after he broke his ribs in a post-Baftas fall at his home.

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The fear was that when this quantity of water hit the bottom, it would detach the ice from the bed on which it rested and lubricate its passage to the sea.

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When the world relies on a single reserve currency, Triffin argued, that currency's home country must issue lots of assets (usually government bonds) to lubricate global commerce and meet the demand for reserves.

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Companies and private equity funds shopping for U.S. biotechnology and pharmaceutical corporations have discovered a neat way to lubricate deals in a volatile market: place all the risk associated with the acquisition on the backs of investors in their target corporation.

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The hothead theory is that the ice on that gigantic island is much less stable than previously thought, and that with a tad more warming, lakes will form in the summer, drain thousands of feet down to the bedrock, and lubricate the flow to the ocean.

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