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Excerpt from Contributions From the Laboratory of the State University: An; On the True Composition of Coal, and on the Methods of Arriving at It; B. The Water-Supply of Columbia, Boone County, Missouri
For the determination of Carbon and Hydrogen gr. Of Coal were taken each time; the combustions were conducted in a char coal-furnace with pure and perfectly dry Lead Chromate, with a spiral of Metallic Copper of about two inches in length placed in front. Four combustions were made, in the last of which the Carbon determination miscarried by the breaking of the absorption-apparatus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
