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" It would certainly be esteemed 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 a candlestick, or burned in a lamp. "
Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers ... - Page 54
edited by - 1858
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Familiar letters on chemistry, ed. by J. Gardner

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...
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Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings, Volume 3

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...
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Chemistry, and Its Application to Physiology, Agriculture, and Commerce

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....
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Familiar Letters on Chemistry: In Its Relations to Physiology, Dietetics ...

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...
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The Chemical Record and Drug Price Current, Volume 1

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...
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Records of the School of Mines and of Science Applied to ..., Volume 1, Part 1

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...
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Records of the School of Mines and of Science Applied to ..., Volume 1, Part 1

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...
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The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, Volume 56

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...
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Complete works on chemistry

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....
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The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

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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