Common solvent

Usage examples of naphtha.

Up the slopes of the ridge yellow naphtha fires flared like unnatural flowers, stinking of brimstone, gushing oily black smoke.

The reserve battalions, taking up position on the slope of a hill, looked out upon the ridge opposite and on the whole scene: the Windships flying and fighting against a dawn sky striped with carnation and topaz, the naphtha missiles punching black smoke plumes from the ruins on the summit, the troops for the later attack lining up under the colored flags of their battalions, chariots marshaling in the shadowy meadows, companies of cavalry moving up through the heath with a jingle of metal plate, and the reserve archers swiftly stringing their crossbows.

Theres some natural source of naphtha below and it constantly bubbles to the surface.

They make all manner of things from this naphtha, even some odd salves that keep wounds from festering, but one thing theyve found is the secret of making Quegan fire.

The walls are limestone, and its limestone dust that turns naphtha into Quegan fire oil.

Guy had ordered naphtha poured down upon the fires, causing them to explode beyond the ability of the attackers to control.

The catapults continued to feed the casks of naphtha to the fire, shortening their range every second launch so as to bring the flames closer and closer to the inner bailey.

Even inside the council chamber they could feel the heat from the continuing fire as the catapults poured more naphtha into the blaze.

The faint odour of naphtha could be detected as the breeze from the open bolt-hole pushed the pungent fumes up the vents.

Dull thuds rang through the ground beneath them as the last reservoirs of naphtha began to ignite, ripping the keep apart.

Now only the raging inferno could be seen as the pool of naphtha burned unabated in the deep pit blown out of the rocks.

Do not set fire to the naphtha until the last possible instant, and if any of the smoke blows in your direction, hold your breath and run.

Guy du Bas-Tyra fire Armengar during the Great Uprising, and when those twenty-five thousand barrels of naphtha went up, the explosion could be seen for miles.

But if the bulk of their army, the key corps, are in the western third of the city waiting for the fires to subside, we can let loose the naphtha in the old sewers.

The naphtha torches were set every twenty feet apart to illuminate proceedings.