[[Fasciculus:Kerosene bottle.jpg|right|thumb|150px|[[Ampulla]] ex [[Australia, caeruleum]] ceroleum continens[[caeruleus|caeruleum]] continet.]]
'''Cêroleum''' ([[Graece]] κηρός (keros) '[[cera]]')<ref>De nominibus Latinis, vide e.g. [http://eweb.furman.edu/~dmorgan/lexicon/adumbratio.htm hanc paginam].</ref> est [[oleum]] et [[hydrocarboneum]] [[liquidus|liquidum]] cuius densitas est 0.78–0.81 g/cm<sup>3</sup>. Extrahitur ex [[petroleum|petroleo]] per [[destillatio fractionalis|destillationem fractionalem]] inter temperaturas[[temperatura]]s 150 °[[Temperatura|C]] et 275 °C quam ob rem ceroleo sit ab 6 usque 16 [[atomus|atoma]] [[carbonium]] per [[molecula]]m. Ceroleum propellando [[Aeroplanumaeroplanum pyraulocineticum|Aeroplanoaeroplano pyraulocinetico]] adhibituradhibetur.
