A kindergarten child was told by his teacher to use turpentine to clean up some paint that had spattered during an art project.

Saab-Valmet developed in late 70's also a dual-fuel version which was able to use kerosene or turpentine alongside with gasoline.

This amusing and still informative treatise describes how he used turpentine to arrest a haemorrhage, describes the flap operation in amputation and shows that he was familiar with tourniquets to stop bleeding during operations.

Then he uses turpentine to dissolve part of the painted rectangle, leaving a subtly tinted section of white and a dialogue between presence and erasure (Johnson).

With these he experimented, washing down his hard edged lines using turpentine and mostly imaging large heads.

I said, "Well you can use paint thinner or turpentine or gasoline."

With alkyd or oil-based paints you have to use turpentine, mineral spirits or a similar solvent for thinning and cleaning, solvents that are usually flammable and have a strong odor.

Ambroise Paré used a solution of egg yolk, oil of roses, and turpentine for war wounds, an old method that the Romans had discovered 1000 years before him.

Have them sharpend professionally when they begin to dull - or replace them if they are not expensive - and keep them free of accumulated gum and pitch by using turpentine or solvent sold for the purpose.

People don't use turpentine in lamps because it is far too volatile to be used in that manner.