naphtha

In the 80s, that was replaced with naphtha.

With a minor footnote that naphtha smells like you're cooking meth and can blow up.

Mid-Late 30's, before that it used gasoline or naphtha to do the cleaning.

It's being used to refine crude oil into: gasoline, kerosene, fuel oil, gas oil, naphtha, reduced crude etc.

I wrote this in another branch, but I should repeat it here: I've had total success by cleaning with naphtha soap after contact with poison ivy.

You also have the selling prices of the various possible products -- naphtha, gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene, motor oil, heating oil, etc.

My concern stems from the fact that if we're producing less oil each successive day, we shouldn't have to make the tough choice between sending oil to refine for gas, or to send it to make plastics, naphtha and wax.

Bunker fuel is what's left after crude oil has had all the lighter fractions cracked off:Small molecules like those in propane, naphtha, gasoline for cars, and jet fuel have relatively low boiling points, and they are removed at the start of the fractional distillation process.

It's a pretty good idea though because the names sound like what they do; naptha makes sense as the name for an image extractor since naphtha is used for doing quick and dirty extractions while making drugs, iodine makes sense here because it's used to bring out more detail in samples when doing microscopy, etc.

Yes, we had to hire smart engineers, but not necessarily geniuses- because the problems we were solving weren't "how do I lower the cost of car ownership in this country," they were more like "why has the efficiency of this naphtha recovery plant decreased by 25% over the last year and how can we fix it?