Show oil from rubber the motorist of the tha future may be able to obtain lils ills petrol and oil from old tires government chemists of the fuel research board have discovered that by compressing rubber and hydrogen at high pressure and high temperature a process similar to that used for extracting oil and tar from coal it Is possible to produce either motor spirits or lubricate lug oli in one experiment a temperature of df degrees centigrade was reached and a quantity of pale yellow oil equal to about one eighth of the bulk built of tile the rubber was produced at a higher temperature degrees centigrade tho the scientists succeeded in obtaining a yield of motor spirit equal to half the amount of rubber used london tit bits |