Editing Astral Oil Works (section)

{{Short description|Former American producer of lamp oil}}
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| image = File:Astral Apartments jeh.JPG
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| image_caption = Employee housing at the [[Astral Apartments]]
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| products = Illuminating oil
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| owners =  [[Charles Pratt]]
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'''Astral Oil Works''' was an American oil company specializing in illuminating oil, and based in [[Brooklyn, New York]]. Astral Oil was a high-quality kerosene used in lamps and noted for being relatively safe.<ref name=public/> It was founded by [[Charles Pratt]]. [[Charles Pratt and Company]] (including Astral Oil) became part of [[John D. Rockefeller]]’s [[Standard Oil]] Trust in 1874,<ref name=trademark/> although the fact that Astral Oil was a New York branch of Standard Oil in Ohio was not made public until 1892.<ref name=public/>