MANY and very various products can be obtained by the carbonisation of bituminous minerals, the character and quality of the materials produced depending mainly upon the temperature at which the ...

Paraffin is omnipresent in our everyday lives: it is used in the waxes covering cheeses, in chewing gum, in skincare products and candles among others. It is transported as a liquid in heated tankers.

THE PRODUCTION OF LIGHT OILS FROM NATURAL GAS. NATURAL gas may be of two distinct types—dry gas or wet gas. The former consists essentially of methane, with practically no other members of the ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 271, No. 1344 (Jan. 1, 1963), pp. 34-43 (10 pages) A reaction scheme analogous to that used for the ...