> From: J.Wolff@ffp.csiro.au (John Wolff)
>   White Spirit:  8008-20-6, Kerosene, petroleum
>   White Spirits: 8042-47-5, White mineral oil, petroleum.
> An older reference lists "White Spirit" as a turpentine substitute,

"White Spirit" is the British English name for what is called Mineral
Spirit paint thinner in the U. S.  Don't try kerosene (called "paraffin"
now in the UK.), it will never dry up.  One assumes that Stoddard was
not Charles Fuller Stoddard!  "Naphtha" is now obsolete as a general term
in the U.S., but is defined in the literature as any thin liquid
petroleum fraction of about C7 to C10, which would be "mineral spirit."