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kerosene oil 
a distillant of petroleum, used for heating, illumination, and various other purposes.
- 1860 (1861) The first successful attempt to manufacture oils from coals in America was made by the author of this work. Oil from coal was made and consumed in lamps by him in his public lectures at Prince Edward's Island, in August, 1846, and subsequently at Halifax, Nova Scotia, accounts of which are still extant. The patents afterwards obtained for his improvements were sold to the North American Kerosene Gas Light Company, and the oils are now manufactured and sold under the denomination of "Kerosene Oil."
- 1894 Kerosene oil was found to be the most sat[is]factory fluid for preserving strawberries, having just about the right density to allow them to settle to the bottom of the jar.
- 1964 It was better to go to school . . . than . . . take the risk of being given . . . a large dose of kerosene oil.
- 1966 Born in Cornwallis, the son of a Loyalist, he [Dr. Abraham Gesner] is remembered as the inventor of the process which gave the world kerosene oil. As such he merits wider recognition than is likely to be accorded him in this electrically-oriented age.
- 1860 (1861) The first successful attempt to manufacture oils from coals in America was made by the author of this work. Oil from coal was made and consumed in lamps by him in his public lectures at Prince Edward's Island, in August, 1846, and subsequently at Halifax, Nova Scotia, accounts of which are still extant. The patents afterwards obtained for his improvements were sold to the North American Kerosene Gas Light Company, and the oils are now manufactured and sold under the denomination of "Kerosene Oil."