which is a flammable oil distilled from coal, shale or petroleum?

Answer 1

Until I looked it up, I thought coal oil and kerosene were one and the same, although kerosene may be what you are looking for:

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"Coal oil is an oil used for illuminating purposes. It is sometimes confused with kerosene or lamp oil, but coal oil was obtained from the destructive distillation of cannel coal, mineral wax, and bituminous shale, and hence called coal oil. A special type of coal known as cannel coal is required to produce it.

Coal oil was first produced in 1851 by Irish immigrant miners at the Victoria Coal Mines near Cloverport, Kentucky.

It consists mainly of several hydrocarbons of the alkane series, having from 10 to 16 carbon atoms in each molecule, and having a higher boiling point (175–325°C) than gasoline or the petroleum ethers, and a lower boiling point than the oils. See also kerosene."

Answer 2

One would distill petroleum, in order to separate it into it's components. Most of which would be flammable.
Distillation is performed upon a liquid,
Solids are not distilled

Answer 3

Kerosene

Answer 4

i believe its shale