Sentences with phrase «in kerosene»

Any doubts as to whether he could afford this were soon dispelled when it emerged he would save exactly twice that in kerosene costs».

I found this surprising and decided to try anyway because most foam burns as if it were soaked in kerosene.

These indications were visible gas liberations from permafrost drill cores from depths less than 150 m when thawing in kerosene or warm water.

Goodbye to ants Banish ants from your pet's food dish by wiping the floor under and around it with a cloth dipped in kerosene.

In the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan, five thousand women and girls have been doused in kerosene and set alight by family members or in - laws — or, perhaps worse, been seared with acid — for perceived disobedience just in the last nine years.

The scraps of cut - off fabric that usually line the bottom are floating in kerosene - rippled water, the emeralds and sapphires of a peacock's tail flashing on its moonlit surface.

Some attempt risky self - treatments, such as bathing in kerosene or bleach, or tweezing or cutting the skin.

Not exact matches

Those tests included repeatedly filling up the rocket with cryogenically cooled RP - 1, a type of kerosene used in jets, and liquid oxygen to combust the fuel.

One of the men fell against a burning barrel of kerosene in the middle of the room that was used to heat up the club.

As a clean, renewable alternative to dirty kerosene lamps and diesel generators, Matthews, now the founder of Uncharted Play based in Harlem in New York City, invented a groundbreaking rotational energy harnessing and generating soccer ball, simply called SOCCKET — all at the age of 19.

Currently, households in Africa not connected to the electric grid can spend up to 20 % of their total budgets on kerosene, which is the primary source of light for many of these households.

U.S. refinery and blender net production of kerosene - type jet fuel reached a record 1.7 million barrels per day in 2017, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, up 7 percent from two years ago.

Hawaiian men wearing malo (loincloths) run through the coconut tree grove, swinging their fiery torches methodically in circles — every downswing igniting kerosene - doused coconut husks lining the paths.

The potential for using petroleum - based solvents such as gasoline and kerosene was discovered in the mid-19th century by French dye - works owner Jean Baptiste Jolly, who noticed that his tablecloth became cleaner after his maid spilled kerosene on it.

Several eyewitnesses have testified to the smell of kerosene at the time of the incident and to its presence in puddles of the water that eventually put out the fire.

For example, petroleum - based kerosene replaced whale oil for lighting in the 19th century, and then electricity took its place in the 20th century.

She points to forensic evidence which indicates that the fire in the train was most likely caused by a kerosene cooking stove carried by one the Hindu pilgrims.

The peasant farmer in Kenya, Tanzania or any of the developing countries is having to work harder in 1984 than in 1954 or «64 to earn enough money to buy a hoe or a gallon of kerosene.

Inside the blind, Kelley toasts his feet in front of a kerosene lantern, sips a cup of tea and peers out over the high, hinged sides.

Curiously, the hike in the price of kerosene came at a time when the price of crude oil had dropped to record low, with the price of petroleum products, such as kerosene, fuel and diesel, among others, dropping significantly in a number of countries, like the United States.

Executive Secretary of the PPPRA, Mr. Farouk Ahmed, who made the announcement, said the reduction in the price of the commodity was due to an implementation of the revised components of the Petroleum Products Pricing Template for PMS and household kerosene.

This sucker could transform lives in so many ways it's not even funny: besides charging economy - altering cellphones and giving children the ability to study after dark, it can help in areas ranging from health (the kerosene lamps currently typically used for night - time lighting are terrible on the lungs) to economics (kerosene can suck up 25 - 30 % of a family budget) to global warming (kerosene = carbon emissions).

He said, «The low LPG consumption in Nigeria has resulted in heavy dependence on kerosene and firewood as primary domestic cooking fuel.

He said, «In the presentation, Kragha told the legislators that the nation's three refineries produced additional volumes of 4.6 million litres of kerosene and 7.7 million litres of diesel.

«Indeed, with the resumption of production by the Corporation's three refineries in Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Warri, complemented by imports, there is enough stock of petrol, diesel and kerosene.»

Baru said in the last one year, NNPC had improved capacity utilization of the refineries with the projection that they would attain supplying 50 per cent of the non-gasoline white products to the nation, including Diesel and Kerosene that are commonly consumed in the Country.

There was talk that Raffa was an arsonist and his beating a mob hit; that five gallons of kerosene had been found in his car and had somehow disappeared from the station house; that «every cop in Brooklyn» knows the name of Raffa's assailant but higher - ups refuse to arrest him; that the car containing the combustible evidence was driven away from the scene by Cuomo's detective - bodyguard, who's a relative of the Cuomo family; that the police reports (DD5s) on the case were missing from headquarters; and that the governor was at the scene shortly after the incident and had used state troopers to erase any evidence of his father - in - law's possible criminality.

The scarcity of kerosene, used by millions of largely poor Nigerians for cooking, has hit major cities causing huge increase in price.

In Kaduna, most of the filling stations in the state had no kerosene (DPK) for salIn Kaduna, most of the filling stations in the state had no kerosene (DPK) for salin the state had no kerosene (DPK) for sale.

«I went to buy kerosene and I saw some women from outside the state carrying big cans and buying the product in large quantity.

NUPENG had alleged that the N224 million was for payment for the supply of diesel and kerosene to the State Government for execution of direct labour projects in Ojodu between October 2014 and May 2015.

The anti-graft agency claimed that the N1.9 bn was part of N3.3 bn, which Shagaya allegedly realised through «fraudulent activities in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,» where she allegedly «influenced the fraudulent allocation of Dual Purpose Kerosene to Index Petrolube Africa Ltd., with the aid of the former First Lady, Mrs. Dame Patience Jonathan.»

Chukwudi Akasike and Sampson Itode, Port Harcourt Tragedy struck at No. 5, Obudu Street, in Diobu area of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital as a newly married man, simply identified as Mr. Alozie was burnt to death while cooking with kerosene stove in his kitchen.

The EFCC claimed that the N3.3 billion was realised from Shagaya's «alleged fraudulent activities in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC), where she allegedly influenced an allocation of Dual Purpose kerosene to a company, Index Petrolube Africa Ltd., with the aid of the former First Lady,

Other un-remediated sites include oil storage plants in Buffalo, Rochester, and Albany — where in 2011, 28,000 gallons of kerosene were spilled and, according to the documents, never fully cleaned up.

He, like many of his neighbors in rural areas with no electricity access at all, prefers to use cheaper wood, coal and kerosene for his own cooking and lighting.

This oil can be used as is, or further distilled (using a larger version of the bench - top distiller in the background) into lighter fuels such as naphtha, gasoline, and kerosene.

Kerosene lamps provide a primary light source in many households — at a cost to both health and wealth.

In fact, the alternative jet fuel — known as synthetic paraffinated kerosenes — has as good or better qualities than Jet A refined from petroleum: It does not freeze at high - altitude temperatures, delivers the same or more power to the engines, and is lighter, as well.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

In the developing world, the 10 watts it produces can light a room at night by electricity rather than expensive and dangerous kerosene.

Heat and catalysts converted methane into syngas (carbon monoxide and hydrogen) which were then transformed into liquid hydrocarbons (otherwise known as oil and its derivatives): petroleum, gasoline and, in the case of aviation, kerosene.

16 Ethanol was widely used as an industrial fuel in America until a tax on alcoholic beverages, levied to help pay for the Civil War, prompted a switch to kerosene and methanol.

An example of what rocketeers call a pintle engine, even to a lay observer it is brilliantly straightforward, with one high - pressure coaxial fuel injector to mix rocket - grade kerosene and liquid oxygen instead of the hundreds of smaller injector holes used in other rocket engines.

But in the nine years before Edwin Drake struck oil in 1859 in Pennsylvania and made kerosene ubiquitous, at least five - sixths of the whale oil — lighting market had already been lost to competing products made from coal.

In March 2013, biologist Sergey Bulat of the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute announced that this ice hosted a new form of bacterial DNA, but his claim was disputed because the sample was contaminated with kerosene drilling fluid.

«We did use trace amounts of kerosene in 2011 prior to when the EPA issued guidance.

«We no longer use the contract completions crews that used very small trace amounts of kerosene and a hydrocarbon distillate on five wells more than three years ago,» said John Christiansen, director of external communications at Anadarko Petroleum Corp., one of the companies listed in the report.

The company, located in Sparks, Nev., claims its process can both snap loose sulfur atoms and lighten the crude, resulting in 30 to 50 percent less sulfur and about one third more diesel and kerosene.

For communities still using kerosene lighting, she said, such small - scale distribution «is not saying people shouldn't have access to the grid, but in the meantime, there is a quick win.»