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THIS, the third volume of a well-known work on chemical technology, gives a history of the manufacture of gas and its application to the purposes of illumination. After a short historical introduction, about three-quarters of the remainder of the book is occupied with a description of the mode of manufacture, purification and distribution of coal gas as carried out in this country. The consideration of gas burners then takes some fifty pages, the questions of the testing, analysis and determination of the heat of combustion of gas occupying about twenty pages. The apparatus used in the manufacture of coal gas is described in great detail, chapters being devoted to the construction and use of retorts, furnaces (several regenerative furnaces being described in this section), stoking machinery, condensers and scrubbers, purifiers, the measurement and storage of gas—the numerous forms of gasholders being very fully given—governors, distributing mains and pipes, and gas meters.
Chemical Technology; or, Chemistry in its Applications to Arts and Manufactures.
Edited by C. E. Groves W. Thorp. Vol. iii. Gas Lighting. By Charles Hunt. Pp. xviii + 312. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1900.) Price 18s.
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Chemical Technology; or, Chemistry in its Applications to Arts and Manufactures . Nature 64, 205 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064205a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/064205a0