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Definitions of kerosene in various dictionaries:
noun - a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters
A thin oil distilled from petroleum or shale oil, used as a fuel for heating and cooking, in lamps, and as a denaturant for alcohol.
noun - a fuel oil
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| Camper's supply |
| Camp combustible |
| Lamp filler |
| Lantern filler |
| Lamp fuel |
| Early Rockefeller product |
| Type of fuel |
| Camper's fuel, perhaps |
| Some rocket fuel |
| Lamp oil |
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| A World War II gasoline shortage made this product the basis of jet fuel, which it remains |
| Also called lamp oil, this petroleum product was once the chief source of artificial lighting |
| Billions worldwide still light their homes with this liquid obtained from distilling petroleum |
| In the 1840s, Abraham Gesner helped turn the lights on when he refined this liquid lamp fuel from coal |
| It said "flame resistant", but a bit of this, aka paraffin oil, got on the tent & a spark lit it up like a Roman candle |
| Leading to the end of whale oil use, Abraham Gesner distilled a new fuel from coal in 1846 & named it this |
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| A thin oil distilled from petroleum or shale oil, used as a fuel for heating and cooking, in lamps, and as a denaturant for alcohol. Also called coal oil, lamp oil. |
| a light fuel oil obtained by distilling petroleum, used especially in jet engines and domestic heating boilers paraffin oil. |
| a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters |
| a clear liquid with a strong smell made from coal or petroleum and used as a fuel in jet engines |
| this liquid when used as a fuel in heaters and lights |
| a type of clear oil that is used as a fuel, esp. for heating and lighting |
| Kerosene description |
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| Kerosene, also known as paraffin, lamp oil, and coal oil (an obsolete term), is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum. It is widely used as a fuel in industry as well as households. Its name derives from Greek: (keros) meaning wax, and was registered as a trademark by Canadian geologist and inventor Abraham Gesner in 1854 before evolving into a genericized trademark. It is sometimes spelled kerosine in scientific and industrial usage. The term kerosene is common in much of Argentina, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and the United States, while the term paraffin (or a closely related variant) is used in Chile, eastern Africa, South Africa, and in the United Kingdom, and (a variant of) the term petroleum in Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Latvian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian. In some of these languages the term kerosine refers instead to jet fuel. The term lamp oil, or the equivalent in the local languages, is com |