Kerosene, sometimes spelled kerosine in scientific and industrial usage,also known as paraffin, is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid. The name is derived fromGreek keros . The word Kerosene was registered as a trademark by Abraham Gesner in 1854 and for several years only the North American Gas Light Company and the Downer Company were allowed to call their lamp oil kerosene.It eventually became a genericized trademark. It is usually called paraffin in the UK, South East Asia and South Africa the term kerosene is usual in much of Canada, the United States, Australia.Kerosene is widely used to power jet- engined aircraft and some rockets, but is also commonly used as a heating fuel and for fire toys such as poi

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