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THE Executive Board of Mining Research of the University of Birmingham has issued a report on the work of the Mining Research Laboratory for the year 1931. The Laboratory receives grants from the British Colliery Owners ‘Research Association, the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and the Miners’ Welfare Fund, which supports work in connexion with the problems of safety in mines. The report bears witness to the wide range of sciences—physics, chemistry, geology, and physiology—which are focused upon the problems of the coal industry. Much attention continues to be given to spontaneous combustion, as underground heatings are a prolific source of danger and accident. For some years the Laboratory has examined the hydrogenation of coal. While this problem has come to be regarded as technically solved, economic success seems to be so remote that the work has been suspended. Attention is being turned to problems connected with the use of compressed gas for road transport.
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Mining Research at Birmingham. Nature 130, 843 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130843a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130843a0