A Practical Treatise on Mineral Oils and Their By-products: Including a Short History of the Scotch Shale Oil Industry, the Geological and Geographical Distribution of the Scotch Shales, Recovery of Acid and Soda Used in Oil Refining, and a List of Patents Relating to Apparatus and Processes for Obtaining and Refining Mineral Oils

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Spon, 1897 - 336 pages
 

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