Thread: Real White Spirit or Fake ?
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Andy Dingley Andy Dingley is offline
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Default Real White Spirit or Fake ?
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:50:20 -0700, wrote:

Actually, belay that. What Americans call white spirit, and what
people in the UK call white spirit are apparently not the same thing.

They are the same, only Americans very rarely use the term at all.
They're more likely to use either:

"mineral spirits" (turps sub.)

"denatured alcohol" (meths)

"Stoddard solvent" (our white spirit)

"white gas" (camping stove fuel, similar to petrol, but without the
additives (leaded or unleaded) to make it suitable for engines). Our
nearest is either Coleman fuel or lighter fluid.


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