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Show OWE WEALTH TO PETROLEUM Vast Fortunes of Oil Kings All Hava Had Their Foundation In That Subatance. 1 Oil la one of the financial backbones of the world. There are more oil klngo than any other kings barring roynltjr. Yet multimillionaires, whose money came from oil, owo their fortunes to the mother oil, petroleum. By this It Is meant that petroleum Is the basis at nine-tenths of the oILb other thun vegetable vege-table oils. Petroleum comes from the earth a liquid substance. It Is then run Into huge tanks, where It Is vuporlzed, too product of the process being collected' This product Is petrol. The substance left In the tanks Is vaporized by tho same process only under greater heat, and what ia collected and condensed lo paraffin. Paraffin and petrol are tho two lightest light-est oils, and for this reason they are the first to be obtained. They are also known as the "lnflummable oils," and. as such, fnr the two most Important oils In existence. When these have bee extracted the heavier oils are driven off. Firstly the thin, then the thlca .Vibricants. The residue, on cooling off, forma solid pn ratlin. Another substance obtained ob-tained from petroleum Is naphtha. There are huge petroleum wells la Kussla and Amurlca. In both placeo the oils are extructed nt the wells and are conveyed through underground pipes to tho sea, where they aro shipped away. The longest oil pipe la about forty miles In length. |