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Show Seek Ncv Methods to Conserve Coal Experts In all parts of the world are txckllm; the problem of how to use coal to the he A ndvnntnce. Professor lierjflus of HeldelherB has reduced cotH to a paste and combined It with hydropeu nt a very b!(,'b temperature tem-perature and pressure. The re:-u!tln',' fluid has all the properties of crude petroleum and cnu be treated In trie same way to produce petrol and cdle'r oils. Another FcleoMst reduces roal to a gaseous form and then liquefies the cases. He has produced methanol, which seems to have nil the properties of wood alcohol; symbol, eipilva!" lit I to a blb-crade petrol; and a n:b-tl- tute for benzine. t (leneral I'atart. a rrenchman, lirm been experimenting with coal -produced ' synthetic alcohol, which shovvj a miv- Im; of IS er cent In calories over petrol. The tempi rature of the rndl-j ator In which It Is ucd was conil i erubly lower than In curs us:n' .etru.' |