| Justus freiherr von Liebig - 1843 - 208 pages
...only advantageous when the other products of the distillation of coal, the coke, &c., can be sold. It would certainly be esteemed one of the greatest...portable, and capable of being placed upon a candlestick, and burned in a lamp. Wax, tallow, and oil, are combustible gases in a solid or fluid form, which offer... | |
| 1844 - 640 pages
...to be solved by the gas engineers, along with his suggestion about "condensing coal-gas into awhile, dry, solid, odourless substance, portable, and capable of being placed upon a candlestick, • Trait* de Chimie Appligufe, vi. 325. 6nd burned in a lamp !" This may be called a grace beyond... | |
| Justus Freiherr von Liebig - 1848 - 68 pages
...only advantageous when the other products of the distillation of coal, the coke, etc., can be sold. It would certainly be esteemed one of the greatest...succeed in condensing coal gas into a white, dry, solid, odorless substance, portable, and capable of being placed upon a candlestick, and burned in a lamp.... | |
| Justus Freiherr von Liebig - 1851 - 576 pages
...only advantageous when the other products of the distillation of coal, the coke, <fec., can be sold. It would certainly be esteemed one of the greatest...being placed upon a candlestick, or burned in a lamp. Wax, tallow, and oil, are combustible gases in a solid or fluid form, which offer many advantages for... | |
| 1851 - 520 pages
...most convenient form of using a combustible. " It would certainly," says Liebig, •' be considered one of the greatest discoveries of the age, if any one could succeed in condensing coal-gas into a white, dry, solid, odourless substance, portable, and capable of being placed upon... | |
| Royal School of Mines (Great Britain) - 1852 - 578 pages
...the most convenient form of using a combustible. " It would certainly," says Liebig, " be considered one of the greatest discoveries of the age if any...being placed upon a candlestick or burned in a lamp." A want is rarely clearly expressed by man that science does not administer to it ; and already is the... | |
| Royal School of Mines (Great Britain) - 1852 - 164 pages
...the most convenient form of using a combustible. " It would certainly," says Liebig, " be considered one of the greatest discoveries of the age if any...being placed upon a candlestick or burned in a lamp." A want is rarely clearly expressed by man that science does not administer to it ; and already is the... | |
| 1852 - 568 pages
...— Lecture by Mr. Forbei, Soc. of Artt. SOLID COAL-OAS. " It would be pronounced," saya Liebig, " one of the greatest discoveries of the age, if any one could succeed in condensing coalgas into a white, dry, solid, odourless substance, portable, and capable of being placed upon a... | |
| Justus Freiherr von Liebig - 1852 - 424 pages
...Ac., can be sold. It would certainly bo esteemed one of the greatest discoveries of the age if anj one could succeed in condensing coal gas into a white, dry, solid, odorless substance, portable, and capable of being placed upon a candlestick, and burned in a lamp.... | |
| 1853 - 336 pages
...barometers constantly used for observations. SOLID COAL GAS. "Il would be pronounced," says Liebig, "one of the greatest discoveries of the age, if any...placed upon a candlestick, or burned in a lamp." This greatest of discoveries has actually been made. A mineral oil flows out of coal in Derbyshire, which... | |
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