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IT is well known that modern life in peace and especially in war depends on fuel in liquid form. While consumption of the lighter and more volatile fuels in internal combustion engines is more apparent to the layman, there is a large consumption of heavier fuel oils consumed for industrial furnaces and on board ships. In peace–time practically all the supply of such heavy oils used in Great Britain were imported and a relatively low price was efficiently maintained. Indeed, industry was furnished with a fuel often superior in quality to what was essential to the purpose in question. The reduction in available supplies of imported oil has compelled the use of heavier and lower grade petroleum oils and indigenous materials such as cresote and pitch–creosote blends.
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Use of Pitch as Fuel. Nature 148, 747 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148747c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148747c0