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kerosene
- Definição1
- A thin oil distilled from petroleum or oil shale, used alone or in mixtures as a jet engine fuel.
- Fonte1
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Manual of aircraft accident and incident investigation. Part III: investigation. 1st ed. Montreal, 2011. (Doc. 9756)
- Fonte2
- KUMAR, Bharat (ed.). An illustrated dictionary of aviation. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2005. 752 p.
- Contexto
- Jet engines are not normally very sensitive to the type or quality of fuel and most engines are approved to run on several types or grades of fuel, such as kerosene, petrol mixtures or even, during emergencies, pure petrol.
- Français
- kérosène
- Imagem
A kerosene bottle, containing blue dyed kerosene. In the U.S., kerosene is typically in a blue (or blue labeled) container.
Fonte: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kerosene_bottle.jpg
