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Kerosene is not needed to burn wood. If you use a layer of scrunched up newspaper, some small kindling on top of the paper, and progressively larger pieces of wood as the fire is starting, no kerosene or other product is necessary if the wood is seasoned and dry.
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Why does kerosene oil catch fire faster than wood?
This is because the specific heat capacity of the wood is more than the kerosene oil. So, the wood takes time to burn but burns for longer period than the kerosene oil.
Which has higher ignition temperature kerosene oil or wood?
kerosene
Why do you have to use paper are kerosene oil to start fire in wood or coal?
It is difficult to ignite wood or coal using a lit match. The match would burn down and singe your fingers long before the wood or coal would light. Using kindling of dry wood shaving, or thin twigs and dry grass, or paper (with or without kerosene), will ignite with one match and burn long enough to light a fire of wood or coal.
Can you mix kerosene and home heating oil in an oil furnace?
Kerosene and home heating oil can be mixed in a oil furnace. Kerosene is thinner than heating oil. Mixed together will make the furnace burn cleaner.
Why do sodium kept immersed in kerosene oil do not burn?
sodium will react with oxygen and kerosene will have no oxygen molecules in it
Why do you have to use paper or kerosene oil start fire in wood or coal?
It is difficult to ignite wood or coal using a lit match. The match would burn down and singe your fingers long before the wood or coal would light. Using kindling of dry wood shaving, or thin twigs and dry grass, or paper (with or without kerosene), will ignite with one match and burn long enough to light a fire of wood or coal.
Why do you have to use paper or kerosene oil to start fire wood or coal?
It is difficult to ignite wood or coal using a lit match. The match would burn down and singe your fingers long before the wood or coal would light. Using kindling of dry wood shaving, or thin twigs and dry grass, or paper (with or without kerosene), will ignite with one match and burn long enough to light a fire of wood or coal.
Can you burn diesel in a kerosene heater?
Diesel and Kerosene are extremely similar.In fact Kerosene is often called #1 Fuel Oil and Diesel is called #2 Fuel Oil.Diesel should burn fine in a kerosene heater, unless you are trying to light it in very cold weather.
Why do you have to use paper or kerosene oil to start fire in wood or charcoal?
because there ignition temp. is less
Can you use kerosene in a fuel oil furnace?
Yes and no. An unmodified oil burner will burn far more kerosene than fuel oil for which it is designed. If you replace the nozzle with a smaller nozzle and adjust the air, using an orsatz [orsat gas analyzer], a device for determining the combustion efficiency of the flame, you will be able to use kerosene. * interesting fact: Kerosene is also known as #1 fuel oil, or JP5 jet fuel. Mixing kerosene with #2 fuel oil, (home heating oil) in small amounts, should have no appreciable effect on the furnace efficiency.
Is mixing kerosene and lamp oil a bad idea?
The only thing wrong with doing this is that kerosene tends to smell a little more than lamp oil and will produce more smoke and soot. But it will burn in a lamp just like the more refined lamp oil.
What will happen if you accidentally put gasoline in your fuel oil heater?
I am out of oil with a delivery scheduled for tomorrow. I went out to the shed to get a 5 gallon can and found a 5 gallon kerosene can filled. I have no smell therefore can not tell if the clear liquid is kerosene or gasoline. I hate to throw it away if it is kerosene, I could burn it in the heater
