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tions being equal, than a mixtureof coarse and fine. A coal known to beliable to spontaneouscombustion should bestored in as low pilesas practicable and ar-ranged so that it canbe moved as promptlyand easily as conditionswill permit. If ground is avail-able to spread out thestored coal in low… … Fig. 3. 70 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [July, Fig 3, the pile here shown being about 30 ft. high. In this instance,considerable trouble has been experienced with spontaneous combus-tion and this has undoubtedly been due to the height of the pile. It has been found poor practice to store new coal on top of…
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