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/ˈkɛɹəsiːn/ · noun
A thin, often colorless or blue or straw-colored petroleum-based fuel, heavier than gasoline/petrol or naphtha but lighter than diesel, used primarily as jet fuel but also for heating and lighting in some remote or impoverished areas..
The kerosene lasted all winter, so the furnace kept us always warm.
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
Use kerosene when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Kerosene means A thin, often colorless or blue or straw-colored petroleum-based fuel, heavier than gasoline/petrol or naphtha but lighter than diesel, used primarily as jet fuel but also for heating and lighting in some remote or impoverished areas..
Common synonyms include paraffin, kero, lamp oil, coal oil.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The kerosene lasted all winter, so the furnace kept us always warm.
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