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AIR-GAS, as it is popularly called, consists of an admixture of ordinary atmospheric air with the vapour of one of the volatile hydrocarbons, such as pentane, gasolene or petroleum spirit. Travellers and others having called attention to the production of a natural, gas in the petroleum-bearing districts, as at Baku and elsewhere, it was not long before attempts were made to imitate the workings of nature by producing from the petroleum of commerce a combustible gas. The carburetting of ordinary air by forcing a current over liquid petroleum first seems to have been proposed by Lowe in 1831, as in that year he took out a patent for his apparatus.
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PURVES, J. Portable Gas Producers . Nature 62, 601–602 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062601b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/062601b0