23 Facts About Kerosene

Kerosene, paraffin, or lamp oil is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum.

Kerosene is widely used to power jet engines of aircraft, as well as some rocket engines in a highly refined form called RP-1.

Kerosene was produced during the same period from oil shale and bitumen by heating the rock to extract the oil, which was then distilled.

Kerosene heated coal in a retort, and distilled from it a clear, thin fluid that he showed made an excellent lamp fuel.

Kerosene coined the name "kerosene" for his fuel, a contraction of keroselaion, meaning wax-oil.

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Kerosene was blocked from using it by the New Brunswick coal conglomerate because they had coal extraction rights for the province, and he lost a court case when their experts claimed albertite was a form of coal.

Kerosene extracted a number of useful liquids from it, one of which he named paraffine oil because at low temperatures, it congealed into a substance that resembled paraffin wax.

Kerosene distilled this from crude oil by a process of his own invention.

Kerosene has been dubbed the Grandfather of the American Oil Industry by historians.

Kerosene, made first from coal and oil shale, then from petroleum, had largely taken over whaling's lucrative market in lamp oil.

Kerosene kept some market share by being increasingly used in stoves and portable heaters.

Kerosene is produced by fractional distillation of crude oil in an oil refinery.

Kerosene was a significant fire risk; in 1880, nearly two of every five New York City fires were caused by defective kerosene lamps.

Kerosene is widely used in Japan and Chile as a home heating fuel for portable and installed kerosene heaters.

Kerosene is often the fuel of choice for range cookers such as Rayburn.

Kerosene is used as a fuel in portable stoves, especially in Primus stoves invented in 1892.

Kerosene is used to fuel smaller-horsepower outboard motors built by Yamaha, Suzuki, and Tohatsu.

Kerosene is sometimes used as an additive in diesel fuel to prevent gelling or waxing in cold temperatures.

Kerosene is used as a diluent in the PUREX extraction process, but it is increasingly being supplanted by dodecane.

Kerosene is often used in the entertainment industry for fire performances, such as fire breathing, fire juggling or poi, and fire dancing.

Kerosene is generally not recommended as fuel for indoor fire dancing, as it produces an unpleasant odor, which becomes poisonous in sufficient concentration.

Kerosene can be used as an adhesive remover on hard-to-remove mucilage or adhesive left by stickers on a glass surface.

Kerosene is sometimes recommended as a folk remedy for killing head lice, but health agencies warn against this as it can cause burns and serious illness.