Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 767
ch b is thus kept rilled up to a certain level. From b the oil descends through e toa, is converted into gas and tar, returning through rfto b. The tube d makes a short bend, and justenters below the thud level in l>, so that the vapors of the decomposed oil must constantly pass throughthe… … wmi JUL retort together with a fresh quantity of oil, until they are completely converted into gas. If the ex-periment is made in a long tube, inclined at the hinder part, whilst the front is kept cool, hardly anytar will be produced. The gas which collects above the oil in b, passes on through the…
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