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[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Pitch/bitumen whatever you'd like to call it seals wood boats will enough we've been using it since the time Sumer.

It catches fire easily so pretty well anything that could be lit. Chinese records say oil itself was being used for lighting in the first century bce.