0
Carbon dioxide. 2.0 4.0 2.0
Oxygen. 2.0 1.0 Nil.
Nitrogen. 2.0 4.0 Nil.
This analysis shows that if the temperature is allowed to reach a
cherry red, complete decomposition of the illuminating hydrocarbons is
taking place, and a gas of practically no illuminating value results.
The power of regulating the temperature and the body of carbon as a
cracking medium in the Van Steenbergh water gas plant especially fits
it for using this oil, and removes the objections which could have
been urged against the lighter naphthas.
This oil is at present not in the market, but given a demand, it can
be produced in four months, at the latest, in very large quantities,
as the apparatus is very easy and cheap to erect, and the crude
material can be plentifully obtained.
If this oil becomes, as I think it will, an important factor in the
illumination of the future, it will mark as important an era in the
history of our industries as any which the century has seen, as, by
using it, you are giving smoke a commercial value, and this will do
what the Society of Arts and the County Council have failed in--that
is, to give us an improved atmosphere.
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