Interesting . Paraffin oil is another example of various English speaking people being separated by a common language. Here is a paraffin oil used in the U.S. and also attached is a definition relating "paraffin oil" to the term in other countries.
from Wikipedia------------Paraffin, or paraffin hydrocarbon, is also the technical name for an alkane in general, but in most cases it refers specifically to a linear, or normal alkane — whereas branched, or isoalkanes are also called isoparaffins. It is distinct from the fuel known in the United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa as paraffin oil or just paraffin, which is called kerosene in most of the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
