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Scientific American, Vol. 85, No. 5 (August 1901) (1901)

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e same, andin consequence the rela-tion between the respec-tive consumption of gaso-line and alcohol for the WEIGHING AN INFANT. Petreano, etc., reply that this reasoning does not holdgood, as practically a good alcohol motor does not con-sume 1.8 times more alcohol than gasoline, as is shownby the… … possible an explanation of the mystery which seemsto surround it. Taking up the reasoning, logical in principle, of theanti-alcoholists, we may compare the alcohol motorthis time with the gas motor. As a petroleum motoris nothing more than a gas motor, its thermic efficiencyshould be about the…

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