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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.
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