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Show EASY TO MAKE OIL SOLID Processes That Simplify Problem of Transportation Without Injuring Its Value as Fuel. Oil can be made permanently solid with comparative ease. There are numerous nu-merous processes some patented, others oth-ers supposed to be secret for accomplishing accom-plishing this result; and the reason they are not employed is that as a rule it is more convenient to have oil in its liquid state. Especially is this so today, when oil is many times more valuable than it was some years ago, when most of these processes were talked of, says the Mexican Review. By the heating of the oil and the admixture of a substitute well known and very common, as well as cheap, the oil was quickly converted Into a substance which, when cold, took on' a solid form. In order that this form should be permanent it was necessary to add, during the latter part of the mixing, a small quantity of another well-known and cheap article, known as "binder." If this was properly done, the oil. on cooling, assumed the fortn of a permanent solid; It could be cut into bricks, blocks or slices, and when burned in a furnace did not melt, but retained Its solid form until consumed. All varieties of crude oil. and moat products, could be so treated. Lamp oil that had undergone this process, and had been solidified, could be cut up afterward Into small slices that were exceedingly handy for lighting fires, boiling a kettle and .other operations oper-ations for which only limited amount of flame and heat was required. The large blocks of solid crude oil could be used with advantage as locomotive or other furnace fuel ; and a test made' on a British express train was entirely entire-ly satisfactory, the journey being accomplished ac-complished on this fuel to. schedule time with the greatest ease. |