Gasoline lantern

Petroleum ethers, pocket lighter, rubber cement solvents, lacquer thinners Automotive gasoline, lantern fuels... 

A thin, volatile oil distilled from petroleum, with a boiling range higher than that of gasoline and lower than that of diesel fuel. Kerosene was once used in lanterns and heaters, but now most of this petroleum fraction is further refined for use as jet fuel. (p. 98)... 

A criminalistics laboratory will have a file (that they prepare for their instmment) of chromatograms for several types of gasolines, kerosenes, lantern fluids, lighter fluids, and almost anything that can be easily purchased and used by an arsonist. 

Table 24.2 lists the ten simplest alkanes. Many of these substances are familiar because they are used so widely. Methane is a major component of natural gas. Propane is the major component of bottled gas used for home heating and cooking in areas where natural gas is not available. Butane is used in disposable bgbters and in fuel canisters for gas camping stoves and lanterns. Alkanes with 5 to 12 carbon atoms per molecule are used to make gasoline. Notice that each succeeding compound in Table 24.2 has an additional CH2 unit. 

We started out with several hours drive to the beach, our car loaded down with four of us and all the gear. Car = gasoline = fossil fuels = carbon dioxide. Whew That s a bad start. We pitched the tent (nylon), blew up the air mattresses (vinyl), and set out our coolers and camp furniture (aluminum and more plastics and synthetic fabrics). That s another load of materials sourced ultimately from fossil els, except for the aluminum, but it requires a huge amount of electricity for its production. We are pretty comfortably set up with a gas camp stove and gas lantern for cooking and lights—oops, more fossil fuels, more CO2. 

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