Difference between revisions of "Coal oil"

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An oil obtained from the destructive distillation of Coal. Coal oil was used for illumination and was originally called Kerosene.

kerosene; coal liquid

Flammable.

G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 431

Richard S. Lewis, Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 10th ed., 1993

Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998

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 == Description ==
-An oil obtained from the destructive distillation of [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=coal coal]. Coal oil was used for illumination and was originally called [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=kerosene kerosene].
+An oil obtained from the destructive distillation of [[coal]]. Coal oil was used for illumination and was originally called [[kerosene]].
 == Synonyms and Related Terms ==