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Another question : What are the specifications of heating oil(s) ? Flash point, water and sediments,Kinematic viscosity, Sulfated Ash, etc. as an example of what I'm looking for: http://www.filter-specialty.com/PDF/bdspec.pdf -- Purelife1970@hotmail.com Nov 09 2006

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Hard to understand

Looks like this long article hasn't had much attention for quite a while. A pity, because it could be better and more useful. These are some specific issues with it as it now stands:

1. It has plenty of information, but doesn't present it in a particularly logical order.

2. It doesn't answer some simple questions that a general reader - one with no prior knowledge of the topic - might have, for example:

2.1 Does the term fuel oil include any oil used to fuel:

2.1.1 a vehicle (ships, cars, trucks, tractors, road-plant, planes, etc,)?

2.1.2 a stationary engine used in agriculture or manufacturing?

2.1.3 a heating plant, i.e. a furnace or domestic heater?

2.1.4 a power generating plant?

2.2 Does the term fuel oil include these specific fuels:

2.2.1 gasoline?

2.2.2 petroleum?

2.2.3 kerosene?

2.2.4 avgas?

2.2.5 diesel?

2.2.6 biodiesel?

3. Some terms are used in the article long before their definitions, e.g. "No. 6 oil".

4. The article seems to be written mostly for a US audience.

5. Some copy-editing is needed to make some sentences clearer, or to make verbs agree with their subjects.

Overall, these issues make the article unnecessarily hard to understand. I'll have a go at improving this article when I can make time. But don't wait on me!

yoyo (talk) 01:39, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've started by copy-editing the lead section for clarity. yoyo (talk) 10:11, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That's a good question. What we need to do is see how the sources define "fuel oil". I think that many people may have different ideas of what that means, but we kind of have to follow the sources, and if the sources don't agree on the definition, explain that in the lede. I agree that it needs cleaning up, staring with the definition and lede, and the rest will be easy. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 00:24, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Here are some reliable-ish sources defining "fuel oil". I think this is a good place to start. Other sources exist as well, I'm not stuck on these. They are not fully vetted.

Why flash

I found this "such as those with a flash point of approximately 42 °C (108 °F),^[why?]". I removed the "why?" tag because the answer is in the Wikipedia Flash point article linked immediately before the tag, where it says, "The flash point is a descriptive characteristic that is used to distinguish between flammable fuels, such as petrol (also known as gasoline), and combustible fuels, such as diesel. It is also used to characterize the fire hazards of fuels. Fuels which have a flash point less than 37.8 °C (100.0 °F) are called flammable, whereas fuels having a flash point above that temperature are called combustible." The editor who inserted the "Why" wikipedia tag did not bother to follow the link. The reason links are placed in articles is to answer just such "why" questions. Follow the links. Nick Beeson (talk) 12:29, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Marketing

oil and non product 102.89.23.214 (talk) 05:30, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]