A morgue assistant recounted stories of heads in kerosene tins.
Leaving aside all the other issues that swirl around narcotics, the way the cocaine base is prepared leads to the dumping in the water of millions of gallons of kerosene, sulphuric acid, acetone, solvent, and tonnes of lime and carbide.
Kerosene prices in Yemen doubled in just one year, between 2011 and 2012.
Jet fuel is kerosene, so it does not have an octane rating but a cetane rating.Josh BrandRobinson, IllinoisSIR – Aircraft emissions, by your own estimate, account for only 3% of carbon emissions ("The dirty sky", June 10th).
A country can reduce MPI poverty by the same amount either by saving a child from an untimely death or by installing a cement floor, a flush toilet and a kerosene stove.
The three found common cause with Vastinah Kemigisha, a Ugandan economist, on an experiment aimed at encouraging the adoption of solar lights, which have the advantage of being more efficient and less dangerous than kerosene.
And since solar lamps eliminate millions of tons of would-be carbon dioxide emissions from kerosene, those who claim development is bad for the environment will have fewer reasons to worry.
It is the world's largest exporter of refined products such as diesel, petrol (gasoline) and aviation fuel (kerosene).
It seems the future is about to arrive.Hydrogen's attraction as a transport fuel is that, unlike petrol, diesel, kerosene, natural gas and every other hydrocarbon fuel, it contains, well, no carbon.
The heavy lifting is done by the nine-engine cluster, fuelled by kerosene and liquid oxygen.
Nor do British refineries produce enough kerosene, which powers passenger jets, to supply the home market.Big oil firms have sold up, preferring to invest in exploration and production.
