Fuel vs. Ligroin — What's the Difference?

A fuel is any material that can be made to react with other substances so that it releases energy as thermal energy or to be used for work. The concept was originally applied solely to those materials capable of releasing chemical energy but has since also been applied to other sources of heat energy such as nuclear energy (via nuclear fission and nuclear fusion).

Ligroin is the petroleum fraction consisting mostly of C7 and C8 hydrocarbons and boiling in the range 90‒140 °C (194–284 °F). The fraction is also called heavy naphtha.

A material such as wood, coal, gas, or oil burned to produce heat or power.

See naphtha.

Fissionable material used in a nuclear reactor.

(archaic) A petroleum fraction boiling 75°-125°C used as a solvent and fuel.

Nutritive material metabolized by a living organism; food.

A trade name applied somewhat indefinitely to some of the volatile products obtained in refining crude petroleum. It is a complex and variable mixture of several hydrocarbons, generally boils below 170° Fahr., and is more inflammable than safe kerosene. It is used as a solvent, as a carburetant for air gas, and for illumination in special lamps.

Something that maintains or stimulates an activity or emotion

To provide with fuel.

To support or stimulate the activity or existence of

To take in fuel.

Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.

Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.

(figuratively) Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.

To provide with fuel.

To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.

Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.

Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement.

To feed with fuel.

To store or furnish with fuel or firing.

A substance that can be consumed to produce energy;

Provide with a combustible substance that provides emergy;

Provide with fuel;

Take in fuel, as of a ship;

Stimulate;