- 1煤油（台灣、大陸都說「煤油」；香港常說「火油」。英式又叫 paraffin，但 paraffin 也可以指蠟燭石蠟，別混）
Kerosene is a clear, thin oil that people burn for heat or light. It goes into lamps, small heaters, and some cooking stoves; aircraft burn a close cousin of it as jet fuel. American English usually says kerosene. British English often says paraffin for the stuff in a heater or lamp — same kind of oil, different everyday name. Though actually, paraffin can also mean the white wax used in candles, so the British word does two jobs and that is a trap. The name kerosene was built in the 1800s from a Greek word for wax, and it was trademarked in 1854. An older English name was carbon oil. It smells; it is dangerous if you drink it or spill it near a flame; and in a modern city you meet it less often than your did. It is not petrol (gasoline), and it is not cooking oil.
組成From Ancient Greek κηρός (kērós), “wax,” plus the chemistry ending -ene. The name was trademarked in 1854.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
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kerosenenoun/ˈkɛɹəsiːn/
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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.
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