Paraffin is the stuff for heaters and lamps (like you see in the westerns) -
it's also non flammable without a wick (drop a match in a bucket of it and
it goes out - honest)
I certainly don't intend to try that. As a young teenager I once decided
to refill a small paraffin heating stove while it was still alight and
was lucky only to have my eyebrows burned off by the resulting
explosion. I don't know if the liquid is flammable, but the vapour
certainly is.
What a crazy language English is, by the way: inexpert = not expert;
inflammable = flammable...
-Keith
