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Show It is announced that a French chemist chem-ist has succeeded in discovering a process pro-cess for rectifying petroleum by the addition ad-dition of a small quautity of a certain chemical product (not named) to the liquid before distilling, by which means an oil is obtained without any odor, even when burning, and the point of inflammability of which is so low that it must be heated to one hundred and seventy-seven degrees before ignition occurs. The volatile gas, usually so readily disengaged from mineral oils, becomes so fixed that evaporation takes place, and, consequently, the danger of fire and explosion is reduced to its minimum. mini-mum. The oils thus prepared, it is stated, can be made imo soap, or can be mixed with vegetable oils, and burned burn-ed like colza in carcel lamps. The soap ' made by this Dew form of petroleum Oil IS saiu LU uo vei euicaeioua in uta- eases of the skin; and is also applicable to the destruction of insects. Articles washed with this are claimed to be ever afterward free from attacks by moths. |