White spirit is a synthetic version of turpentine (or at least it's used
interchangeably with turps). It's used for cleaning off wet or recently
dried paint from things. It's a solvent and I think it can be used to
thin oil based paints, but not sure.

Paul

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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As far a "white spirit" is concerned, I ran into the term in a book on
wood
finishing years ago and asked a gent from the Britain Isles what it was.
He told
me that he thought "white spirit" is called kerosene over here. Since that
does
not appear to be the case, can you tell me what it would be called over
here?