Kerosene
Kerosene or paraffin oil is a colourless flammable liquid, usually used for fuel. Kerosene is made by fractional distillation of petroleum. It may be used as fuel for lamps, in some kinds of cooking stoves and heaters, and there are even kerosene refrigerators.[1] Kerosene is mainly used in the fuel for jet engines. The most common consumer use for kerosene in Canada and the US is lighting camp lamps. Kerosene is used as cooking fuel in some places, such as South Asia. Kerosene is also used to store sodium and other alkali metals.
Kerosene Media
Persian scholar Rāzi (or Rhazes) was the first to distill kerosene in the ninth century. He is depicted here in a manuscript by Gerard of Cremona.
A queue for kerosene. Moscow, Russia, 1920s
Abraham Gesner distilled kerosene from bituminous coal and oil shale experimentally in 1846; commercial production followed in 1854
A truck delivering kerosene in Japan
Kerosene storage tank located in Raritan NJ used by local fuel company to refill customer's kerosene containers.
Old kerosene stoves from India.
References
- ↑ Lam, Nicholas; Smith, Kirk; Gauthier, Alison; Bates, Michael (May 25, 2013). "KEROSENE: A REVIEW OF HOUSEHOLD USES AND THEIR HAZARDS IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES". US National Library of Medicine.
