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The steam-engine and other heat-motors (1909)

Creighton, William Henry Paul, 1859- · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 509

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-MOTORS. bon that may be steam-burned must be very much less thanthat which is air-burned. It is feasible to burn 3 pounds ofcarbon with air to 1 pound of steam-burned carbon. If air is a mixture of §0 + gN. 3 lbs. C+4lbs. 0 =7 lbs. CO @ 12.8 cu. ft. per lb. = 89.6 Nitrogen with 4 lbs. O =14 N @… … Fig. .257. Expressed in percentage the gas has the following volume andweight. Volume. Weight. 36.4% 39.7% 9.1 .7 54.5 59.6 Carbon monoxide, CO.Hydrogen, H. . Nitrogen, N. . In finding the heat liberated when one pound of CO is burnedto CO2 it is necessary to find the amount of C burned. Further,we…

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