Ligroin
Template:Short description Template:Chembox Ligroin is a petroleum. The fraction is also called heavy naphtha.[1][2] These may be called light naphtha.[3]
The name ligroin (or ligroine or ligroïne) appeared as early as 1866.[note 1]
Use as fuel
Ligroin was used to refuel the world's first production automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, on a long distance journey between Mannheim and Pforzheim. Bertha Benz added ligroin to the vehicle at a pharmacy in Wiesloch, making it the first filling station in history.
The first functional diesel engine could also run on ligroin.[4]
See also
References
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- ↑ "Chemistry of Hazardous Materials, Third Edition", Meyer, E., Prentice Hall, 1998, page 458.
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- ↑ Rudolf Diesel: Die Entstehung des Dieselmotors, Springer, Berlin 1913, Template:ISBN. p. 110
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Notes
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- ↑ The name "ligroin" was coined in the United States:
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". From p. 349: "Ligroine; der in Amerika erfundene Name für einen der flüchtigeren Teile des rohen Petroleums, … " (Ligroin: the name that was coined in America for one of the more volatile parts of crude petroleum, … )
- Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". From p. 389: "Dr. Van der Weyde then exhibited some samples of the products of distillation of tar, and a safety-lamp for burning the lighter hydro-carbons, which is mainly a reproduction of the "Ligroine" lamp invented and put into the market first by C. Schreiber in Munich (Bavaria), and described in the March number of Dingler's Polytechnic Journal."
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- Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". From p. 474: "Das einzige Gefährliche ist die Aufbewahrung des Leuchtstoffes, der sogenannten Li-gro-ine selbst. Diese Naphta oder Li-gro-ine muß, wenn in großen Quantitäten vorhanden, in wohl verschlossenen Gefäßen aufbewahrt werden." (The one danger is the storage of the lamp fuel, the so-called "ligroin" itself. This naphtha or "ligroin" must, if present in large quantities, be stored in well sealed containers.)
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