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Re: which vegetable oil was cultivated for lamp fuel?
In <4s139h$3la@gunmetal.starway.net.au>, hchpl@fhills.starway.net.au (Darcy Howard) writes:
>alanh@widomaker.com (Alan Horowitz) wrote:
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>>Let me re-phrase the question, to attack it from a different angle.
>
>>Sperm whale oil replaced - which illumination fuel?
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>A variety of vegetable oils were used for illumination both before and
>after whale oils were used for that purpose. Cheaper vegetable seed
>oils was one of the factors leading to the decline of commercial
>whaling.
>
>Mark Howard
>hchpl@fhills.starway.netau
>
It looks like I'm jumping in here kind of late. But I searched for this newsgroup to get an answer
on this subject. I was wondering about cooking oil. I know it burns but at a high temp. Would it burn
as a replacement for fuel oil or mixed with fuel oil in a home heating furnace?
Roger Dedrick
roger@lightlink.com
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