Usage examples for naphtha:

• A tax of one cent per gallon on gasoline and naphtha would yield, at the present estimated production, $ 10, 000, 000; a tax of fifty cents per horse power on automobiles and internal explosion engines, $ 15, 000, 000; a stamp tax on bank cheques, probably $ 18, 000, 000; a tax of twenty- five cents per ton on pig iron, $ 10, 000, 000; a tax of twenty- five cents per ton on fabricated iron and steel, probably $ 10, 000, 000. In a country of great industries like this it ought to be easy to distribute the burdens of taxation without making them anywhere bear too heavily or too exclusively upon any one set of persons or undertakings. "Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present" – Various

• In an instant a sheet of flame burst out all round the steamer The boiling came from a submarine spring of naphtha and the cigar end had set it alight. "The Adventures of a Special Correspondent" – Jules Verne

• Ten per cent of the coal should be cannel; naphtha is, however, often employed to subserve the same purpose, one ton of ordinary bituminous coal requiring four gallons of oil. "An Introduction to Chemical Science" – R.P. Williams