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ALL fuels consist essentially of carbon and hydrogen combined in different proportions. In oil, the proportion of hydrogen to carbon is higher than in coal; further, oil contains less oxygen than coal. It is thus obvious that in order to turn coal into oil the proportions of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen must be suitably readjusted. Various ways of doing this have suggested themselves to the scientific mind, but oil was first produced commercially from coal almost, as it were, accidentally, for it is one of the by-products in the manufacture of gas from coal.
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LANDER, C. Oil and Petrol from Coal*. Nature 129, 640–641 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129640a0
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