The American Journal of Science and ArtsS. Converse, 1860 - Geology |
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... paraf- fine - oil , and an inquiry into the association of elements in the minerals constituting the sources of this and similar " mineral- oils " and in the bituminous coals , may possess some interest in a chemical point of view . As ...
... paraf- fine - oil , and an inquiry into the association of elements in the minerals constituting the sources of this and similar " mineral- oils " and in the bituminous coals , may possess some interest in a chemical point of view . As ...
Page 113
... Paraffine is an almost never - failing constituent . Crude oil , though of course varying greatly , according to the sources from which it is derived , like the various marketable " coal oils " obtained from it by purification , is spe ...
... Paraffine is an almost never - failing constituent . Crude oil , though of course varying greatly , according to the sources from which it is derived , like the various marketable " coal oils " obtained from it by purification , is spe ...
Page 114
... paraffine - oil . We refer to SEL- LIGUE . More than twenty - five years ago , this inventor's method of obtaining such oil was described in the Journal des Connaissances Usuelles , for Dec. , 1834 , p . 285. ( See also Dingler's ...
... paraffine - oil . We refer to SEL- LIGUE . More than twenty - five years ago , this inventor's method of obtaining such oil was described in the Journal des Connaissances Usuelles , for Dec. , 1834 , p . 285. ( See also Dingler's ...
Page 115
... paraf- fine - to which however he gave no name . The attention of the scientific world was first really attracted to this substance by the memorable memoir of Reichenbach , § who separated it , in the first instance , from wood tar ...
... paraf- fine - to which however he gave no name . The attention of the scientific world was first really attracted to this substance by the memorable memoir of Reichenbach , § who separated it , in the first instance , from wood tar ...
Page 116
... paraffine was separated from the less volatile portions of the rectified oil by cooling - the description of which oil R. reserves for a separate article . He also obtained paraffine from petroleum . Two more papers upon the subject ...
... paraffine was separated from the less volatile portions of the rectified oil by cooling - the description of which oil R. reserves for a separate article . He also obtained paraffine from petroleum . Two more papers upon the subject ...
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