(n.) An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence called also coal oil. It is now produced in immense quantities, chiefly by the distillation and purification of petroleum. It consists chiefly of several hydrocarbons of the methane series.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results strongly suggest that secondary bacterial infection following kerosene-induced pneumonitis is rare.
(2) Results indicate that the primate brain is resistent to the direct toxic effects of kerosene.
(3) The most important causes of acute poisoning were kerosene (59%) and traditional medicines (15.8%).
(4) Baboons were utilized to investigate the clinicopathologic effects of kerosene, given via various routes, on the primate brain.
(5) Assimilation of kerosene and hexadecane was optimal at pH 2 and was stimulated by yeast extract.
(6) Guinea pigs were exposed to kerosene aerosol and compared to controls exposed to atmospheric air.
(7) Those using kerosene suffered more than those using gas (22.2% as compared to 9.2%) Lung functions (FVC, FEVI) were lowest in Parel for males and in Maravali for females.
(8) On the other hand, the bronchoconstrictive effect of kerosene in guinea pigs and rabbits was not modified by the previous treatment with mepyramine or triamcinolone respectively.
(9) Kerosene exposure induced cytologic and biochemical changes in the pulmonary washings of guinea pigs.
(10) The biochemical mechanisms involved in the bronchoconstriction and airway hyperresponsiveness induced by the acute inhalation of aerosol of kerosene in experimental animals and the inflammatory changes induced by subchronic inhalation of the aerosol or smoke of kerosene were investigated.
(11) Kerosene pressure stove accidents occurred commonly in the age group 16-35 years and were rare in other age groups.
(12) Must read If I'm on fire in a well full of kerosene, then the emergency ladder release instructions are a "must read".
(13) Investigations showed that the explosions occurred due to petrol contamination of the kerosene before delivery to the domestic users.
(14) Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian For the one in five of the world's population who live off the electricity grid, Eliasson hopes that it will change lives, allowing people to read, work and interact at a fraction of the cost, over time, of using kerosene lamps.
(15) The carboxyhaemoglobin concentrations were significantly higher in the women using the three types of fuel (mean (SEM) concentration 7.49% [corrected] (0.67%) for kerosene, 15.74% (0.83%) for biomass fuel, and 17.16% (0.62%) for liquified petroleum gas, compared with 3.52% (0.33%) in the control subjects.
(16) Repeated exposure to kerosene produced histologic changes in the foot pad skin and popliteal lymph nodes of mice and systemic toxic manifestations such as variation in hematologic profile, significant decreases in relative weight of thymus, spleen and abdominal lymph nodes and altered histology.
(17) Young healthy albino male mice were subjected to repeated exposure to kerosene by wrapping each of their hind feet with a muslin cloth (1 x 10 cm) wetted with kerosene (0.1 ml).
(18) It would still cost more than kerosene to buy, but that would be balanced by the expected financial value of the carbon saving it delivers.
(19) There’s a lot of them.” Other people on the waiting list for new homes – wooden bungalows or trailers – are what she calls “burn downs”, whose homes were destroyed by fire from candles, kerosene heaters or pot belly stoves.
(20) Seven components of gasoline (isopentane, n-pentane, 2-methylpentane, benzene, 2-methylhexane, 3-methylhexane and toluene) and five of kerosene (xylene, C9H20, mesitylene, pseudocumene and C11H24) were chosen as indicators with a coefficient of variation of 5-24%.
Petrol
Definition:
(n.) Petroleum.
Example Sentences:
(1) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
(2) Here petrol is practically a free gift,” Arias said.
(3) Tipping petrol on a fire isn’t going to get the heat out of it,” he told ABC radio.
(4) The closest town of any size is Burns, population 2,806, where you should stock up on petrol, food and water before heading south into the wilderness on the 66-mile Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway.
(5) Tesco, the UK’s biggest petrol retailer with 499 outlets and more than 16% market share, cut petrol and diesel by 1p a litre at all of its petrol stations from lunchtime on Thursday.
(6) While demand in the US remains sluggish, Toyota has benefited at home from a revival in demand for its Prius petrol-electric hybrid, Japan's best-selling passenger car for the past five months.
(7) He reduced the standard rate to 8%, but introduced a higher rate of 12.5% for petrol and some luxury goods, doubling the upper rate later that year to 25% before lowering it in 1976.
(8) Shell, along with other oil companies, has been cleared by the Office of Fair Trading of profiteering on the UK petrol forecourt, but the $27bn annual earnings figure underlines the enormous global profits being made "upstream" – bringing oil and gas out of the ground.
(9) That is 3.1% over the year and today's figures show that Britain is coming back ... For the first time in a decade all three main sectors of the economy have grown by at least 3% in the past year," he said in answer to a question about the price of petrol.
(10) The Unite union, which represents petrol tanker drivers, said there was no threat of a strike over the Easter period and it was focused on talks through the conciliation service Acas.
(11) Petrol car registrations rose by 3.4%, while diesel vehicles saw a slight 0.6% decline in registrations.
(12) Supporters of all parties want more action to cut the cost of petrol.
(13) He not only wouldn’t increase tax on petrol, he gave extra help to those extracting fossil fuel.
(14) This tends to push buyers behind the wheel of a diesel, which usually produces less CO2 than an equivalent petrol.
(15) But anyone who dreams that Germany’s warmth provides more than a sticking plaster to Europe’s migration crisis should have seen the scene half a mile south of the petrol station on Sunday.
(16) Customers posting on Twitter reported having their cards refused in shops, petrol stations and restaurants, as well as not being able to see their balances or withdraw cash at the bank's ATMs.
(17) It was the highest level in more than two years, driven higher by clothing and petrol prices, in a sign that the fall in the value of the pound since the Brexit vote is fuelling a rise in the cost of living.
(18) But the task remains to move the country's remaining fossil fuel-dependent sectors to clean technology: Iceland's fishing fleet, cars and buses, which run on oil and petrol, ironically make the country one of the highest per head greenhouse gas emitters in Europe .
(19) Insecurity has led to panic buying of fuel, with long, chaotic queues at petrol stations.
(20) An attempt to contain juvenile petrol abuse at Elcho Island in the Northern Territory of Australia is described.