Kerosene
noun
A type of oil that is used as fuel.
He filled the lamp with kerosene.
Often appears as...
- kerosene lamp
- kerosene heater
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A type of oil that is used as fuel.
He filled the lamp with kerosene.
Often appears as...
- kerosene lamp
- kerosene heater
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Safety Precaution
Kerosene is highly flammable. Always use with caution to avoid fires and health hazards.
The safety label cautioned against storing kerosene near open flames.
Pro Tip 2/3Heating Use
Kerosene is commonly used in portable heaters, especially where electricity is unavailable.
Many people in the countryside use kerosene heaters during winter.
Pro Tip 3/3Lighting Source
Kerosene lamps are popular in areas without electricity, providing light using kerosene as fuel.
Villagers lit kerosene lamps at dusk to illuminate their homes.
Pro Tip 1/3Safety Precaution
Kerosene is highly flammable. Always use with caution to avoid fires and health hazards.
The safety label cautioned against storing kerosene near open flames.
Pro Tip 2/3Heating Use
Kerosene is commonly used in portable heaters, especially where electricity is unavailable.
Many people in the countryside use kerosene heaters during winter.
Pro Tip 3/3Lighting Source
Kerosene lamps are popular in areas without electricity, providing light using kerosene as fuel.
Villagers lit kerosene lamps at dusk to illuminate their homes.
Pro Tip 1/3Safety Precaution
Kerosene is highly flammable. Always use with caution to avoid fires and health hazards.
The safety label cautioned against storing kerosene near open flames.
Pro Tip 2/3Heating Use
Kerosene is commonly used in portable heaters, especially where electricity is unavailable.
Many people in the countryside use kerosene heaters during winter.
Pro Tip 3/3Lighting Source
Kerosene lamps are popular in areas without electricity, providing light using kerosene as fuel.
Villagers lit kerosene lamps at dusk to illuminate their homes.
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How to change your...
Right? At that level of poverty, there'll be less food, less kerosene, less water -- something less tonight. And what his father was doing and what our coin was trying to do is to say, yes, there's less food on the table, but there's another activity. You see, what happened is, there are many good, important economic activities,
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How do solar panels...
there's the fact that over a billion people don't have access to a reliable electric grid, especially in developing countries, many of which are sunny. So in places like that, solar energy is already much cheaper and safer than available alternatives, like kerosene.
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Maker space; supporting...
the lights that she used in her house was basically candles and kerosene and this is the type of energy that she used in house for most of her life she lived in a world that she didn't have much but then this did not bother her this is my
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Matthew Carter: My life...
and it was my first experience of digital type, and quite a baptism. Designed for the phone books, as I said, to be printed at tiny size on newsprint on very high-speed rotary presses with ink that was kerosene and lampblack.
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Adam Grosser: A mobile...
the spread of disease the storage of food and medicine and the quality of life. So here's the plan ... inexpensive refrigeration that doesn't use electricity, propane, gas, kerosene or consumables
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100 solutions to reverse...
receiving their first solar panel. Before, kerosene was used for cooking and lighting, kerosene on a straw island. So by installing solar, this family is not only helping to reduce emissions,
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Lighting up Sub-Saharan...
which is jet fuel to create a dim smoky light to light their home and ward off darkness really it's just crazy the World Bank estimates that a single kerosene lamp in a room for one evening
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Mind Blown - Hangout to...
people said what yes absolutely so the first one we were looking at was you walk into a room with a match a kerosene lamp a candle and you see a fireplace which should you light first
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Ending energy poverty...
the device is fully paid off pay-as-you-go can make solar energy cheaper than kerosene on a weekly basis and entirely free once that product is paid off solar can become a no-brainer
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Fly with the Jetman PIPE...
turbines, working with kerosene. Harness, parachute. My only instruments are an altimeter and time. I know I have about eight minutes fuel. So I just check before it's finished.
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How to change your...
Right? At that level of poverty, there'll be less food, less kerosene, less water -- something less tonight. And what his father was doing and what our coin was trying to do is to say, yes, there's less food on the table, but there's another activity. You see, what happened is, there are many good, important economic activities,
Video examples
How do solar panels...
there's the fact that over a billion people don't have access to a reliable electric grid, especially in developing countries, many of which are sunny. So in places like that, solar energy is already much cheaper and safer than available alternatives, like kerosene.
Video examples
Maker space; supporting...
the lights that she used in her house was basically candles and kerosene and this is the type of energy that she used in house for most of her life she lived in a world that she didn't have much but then this did not bother her this is my
Video examples
Matthew Carter: My life...
and it was my first experience of digital type, and quite a baptism. Designed for the phone books, as I said, to be printed at tiny size on newsprint on very high-speed rotary presses with ink that was kerosene and lampblack.
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Adam Grosser: A mobile...
the spread of disease the storage of food and medicine and the quality of life. So here's the plan ... inexpensive refrigeration that doesn't use electricity, propane, gas, kerosene or consumables
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100 solutions to reverse...
receiving their first solar panel. Before, kerosene was used for cooking and lighting, kerosene on a straw island. So by installing solar, this family is not only helping to reduce emissions,
Video examples
Lighting up Sub-Saharan...
which is jet fuel to create a dim smoky light to light their home and ward off darkness really it's just crazy the World Bank estimates that a single kerosene lamp in a room for one evening
Video examples
Mind Blown - Hangout to...
people said what yes absolutely so the first one we were looking at was you walk into a room with a match a kerosene lamp a candle and you see a fireplace which should you light first
Video examples
Ending energy poverty...
the device is fully paid off pay-as-you-go can make solar energy cheaper than kerosene on a weekly basis and entirely free once that product is paid off solar can become a no-brainer
Video examples
Fly with the Jetman PIPE...
turbines, working with kerosene. Harness, parachute. My only instruments are an altimeter and time. I know I have about eight minutes fuel. So I just check before it's finished.
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Tom Brokaw
American Journalist
The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.
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Cherie Lunghi
English Actress
I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.
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Bunker Roy
Indian Educator
Jeff Sachs has the Millennium Villages. He spends $2.5 million in one village. It's an absolutely ridiculous model, because I've said that if you gave me $2.5 million, I can train 100 grandmothers, solar electrify 100 villages - 10,000 houses - and save you 100,000 litres of kerosene.
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Baron Corbin
American Athlete
Sometimes I just go, 'Is it me? Am I really just not that likeable?' The cool thing is, when you go out there and see a lady get mad or a guy get mad, or they hate you because you didn't come from the independents, or whatever, what I like to do is just pour kerosene on that fire.
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Ada Yonath
Israeli Scientist
Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.
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Chris Gibson
American Politician
I don't recommend this, but my dad - to help us get through the winter, he bought a kerosene heater, and he had it in the kitchen so that the furnace wouldn't have to kick off.
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Emraan Hashmi
Indian Actor
I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah, not a very normal thing to do.
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Jerry Leiber
American Musician
Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal.
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Roald Dahl
British Novelist
Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
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Tom Brokaw
American Journalist
The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.
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Cherie Lunghi
English Actress
I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.
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Bunker Roy
Indian Educator
Jeff Sachs has the Millennium Villages. He spends $2.5 million in one village. It's an absolutely ridiculous model, because I've said that if you gave me $2.5 million, I can train 100 grandmothers, solar electrify 100 villages - 10,000 houses - and save you 100,000 litres of kerosene.
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Baron Corbin
American Athlete
Sometimes I just go, 'Is it me? Am I really just not that likeable?' The cool thing is, when you go out there and see a lady get mad or a guy get mad, or they hate you because you didn't come from the independents, or whatever, what I like to do is just pour kerosene on that fire.
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Ada Yonath
Israeli Scientist
Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.
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Chris Gibson
American Politician
I don't recommend this, but my dad - to help us get through the winter, he bought a kerosene heater, and he had it in the kitchen so that the furnace wouldn't have to kick off.
Quote examples
Emraan Hashmi
Indian Actor
I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah, not a very normal thing to do.
Quote examples
Jerry Leiber
American Musician
Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal.
Quote examples
Roald Dahl
British Novelist
Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
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