| 单词 | kerosene oil |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskerosene oil kerosene oil n. ΚΠ 1863 E. Dicey Six Months in Federal States I. 21 A store of Kerozene oil had caught fire. 1896 B. M. Croker Village Tales 221 Treasure, which was buried in a kerosene-oil tin. kerosene oil First manufactured by Abraham Gesner, shortly after 1846 (1865 Gesner Coal, Geology etc. 9), and frequently called kerosene oil. Also commonly known as petroleum, which properly denotes the crude mineral oil from which kerosene is obtained. Kerosene, -ine is now the usual name for paraffin in much of the U.S. (see quot. 19611) and in Australia and New Zealand; in Britain its currency is largely restricted to technical contexts. The spelling kerosine was adopted in 1925 by the American Society for Testing Materials and (in Britain) by the Institute of Petroleum; the -ene form remains the usual one in general usage and still occurs in technical contexts.extracted from kerosenen.< as lemmas |
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