Quito, Ecuador's capital city, makes for a nice change with a more relaxed feel and safer atmosphere than other major cities. It is the sort of place you can find yourself staying longer than planned.
These 10 animal facts will amaze you. A type of convection heater, an oil heater is an alternative way to keep small areas of a home or building warm. Electricity powers a built-in heating element, which in turn heats the oil kept inside hollow columns of the device.
Heating oil produces 138,500 British thermal units per US gallon (38.6 MJ/l) and weighs 8.2 pounds per US gallon (0.95 kg/l). Number 2 fuel oil has a flash point of 52 Â°C (126 Â°F). Most heating oil products are chemically very similar to diesel fuel used as motor fuel.