Petroleum

Petroleum is a crude oil that is flammable.  It's refined and separated most easily by boiling point. Its used in a large number of costumer products, from gasoline, kerosene to asphalt and chemical reagents there used to make plastic and other stuff.  This word was first used in the treatise De Natura Fossilium, that was published in 1546 by a german mineralogist George Bauer.