 ... and compared with the coal itself reduced to powder was found deprived of the greater portion of the bitumen and, in some instances, entirely destitute of it. There is every reason to believe that much coal gas...  Bulletin - Page 11911Full view - About this book
 | Arts - 1845 - 496 pages
...There is every reason to believe that much coal gas was made from this dust in the very air itself of the mine by the flame of the fire damp, which raised...along ; and much of the carbon of this dust remained unburut only for want of air. At first we were greatly embarrassed by the circumstance of the large... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1895 - 368 pages
...coal gas was made from this dust in the very air itself of the mine, by the flame of the fire-damp which raised and swept it along, and much of the carbon...this dust remained unburnt only from want of air. At first we were greatly embarrassed by the circumstance of the large number of deaths from choke damp,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1886 - 666 pages
...much coal-gas was made from this dust in the very air itself of the mine, by the fame of the firedamp, which raised and swept it along, and much of the carbon of this dust remained unburnt only for want of air." That is to say, the flame of the fire-damp is extended, and the effect of the explosion... | |
 | Mines and mineral resources - 1872 - 878 pages
...much coal-gas was made from this dust in the very air itself of the mine by the flame of the firedamp, which raised and swept it along ; and much of the carbon of this dust remained unburnt only for want of air." Mr. Galloway, HM Inspector of Mines, read a paper before the Royal Society, in March,... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1876 - 810 pages
...much coal-gas was made from this dust in the very air itself of the mine by the flame of the firedamp, which raised and swept it along ; and much of the carbon of this dust remained unburnt only for want of air." mmediately from the consideration that, without doubt, combustible gases can supplant... | |
 | Chemistry - 1882 - 640 pages
...coal-gas was made from this dust in the very air itself of the mine, by the flame of the fire-damp, which raised and swept it along, and much of the carbon of this dust remained unburnt only for want of air. On January lyth, 1845, Faraday delivered a discourse to the members of the Royal Institution,... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1884 - 540 pages
...coal gas was made from this dust in the very air itself of the mine, by the flame of the fire-damp, which raised and swept it along, and much of the carbon of this dust remained nnburnt only for want of air. " At first we were greatly embarrassed by the circumstance of the large... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Science - 1886 - 884 pages
...coal-gas was made from this dust in the Very air itself of the mine, by the Jlame of the firedamp, which raised and swept it along, and much of the carbon of this dust remained unburnt only for want of air." That is to say, the flame of the fire-damp Is extended, and the effect of the explosion... | |
 | Charles Edward Groves - 1889 - 852 pages
...very air itself of the mine by the flame of the fire-damp which raised it and swept it along, and that much of the carbon of this dust remained unburnt only from want of air. At first we were greatly embarrassed by the circumstance of the large number of deaths from choke-damp,... | |
 | Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, William Joseph Dibdin - Chemistry, Technical - 1889 - 850 pages
...very air itself of the mine by the flame of the fire-damp which raised it and swept it along, and that much of the carbon of this dust remained unburnt only from want of air. At first we were greatly embarrassed by the circumstance of the large number of deaths from choke-damp,... | |
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