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CONSIDERABLE anxiety has for some time past prevailed as to the existence of danger attending the use, storage and transport of the mineral oil now used for illuminating purposes and, as the questions involved are not only of great importance in many respects; but likely to be soon brought prominently before the public, some account of the sources of mineral oil and of its characteristics will probably be acceptable to our readers.
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Petroleum and its Allies . Nature 1, 376–377 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001376a0
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