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Kerosene vs Olefin - What's the difference?

kerosene | olefin |

As nouns the difference between kerosene and olefin

is that kerosene is a petroleum based thin and colorless fuel; paraffin while olefin is any of a class of unsaturated open-chain hydrocarbons such as ethylene; an alkene with only one carbon-carbon double bond.

kerosene

English

Alternative forms

* kerosine

Noun

  • (Canadian, US) A petroleum based thin and colorless fuel; (British) paraffin.
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    • , title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=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.

    Derived terms

    * biokerosene

    Synonyms

    * coal oil * kero * lamp oil

    External links

    * (wikipedia) ----

    olefin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) Any of a class of unsaturated open-chain hydrocarbons such as ethylene; an alkene with only one carbon-carbon double bond.

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