Handbook of preventive medicine.

  • Great Britain. Air Ministry.
Date:
1959
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Credit: Handbook of preventive medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    measured by the flash point. Kerosine distillates have a flash point (Abel) of not less than 73°F. The sulphur content is rarely more than 0-4 per cent., but on combustion this results in the evolution of sulphur dioxide fumes which are irritant and corrosive. 117. Uses. Kerosine is used in lighting, heating, cooking, as fuel for heavy internal combustion and jet engines, for degreasing machine parts, and as a solvent for insecticides. The composition is varied according to use, a high proportion of paraffin hydrocarbons being required in a good burning oil, whereas naphthene and aromatic com- pounds that burn with an oily smoke and prevent knocking are needed in greater amounts in vapourizing oils for engines. (para 118 on page 155.) 354A