THE destructive distillation of wood is one of the earliest industries known to man. The need of charcoal for fuel and for the smelting of iron was the primary aim of the undertaking. Up to the ...

THE general treatment in this work is on somewhat similar lines to that followed in recent British and American text-books on the subject. Special attention is given to the distillation of resinous ...

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