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THE author has certainly contrived to include a very large amount of information regarding alcohol in this little book, which contains clear descriptions of the properties of the alcohols and the methods of production. There are interesting chapters on the technical applications and the use of alcohol for the development of power. By no means the least informative part of the book is the numerous references to government regulations and restrictions. Thus, after a statement of some of these restrictions, we read on page 31:—“Plant is stereotyped, and there is no encouragement to introduce improvements in method or in apparatus. Transport by tank is forbidden, and no distillery is permitted to be more than a quarter of a mile from a market town, whereas it would frequently be better to situate the distillery near to the raw materials.” We can commend this book to any who are interested in the development of alcohol as a fuel.
Industrial and Power Alcohol.
Dr.
R. C.
Farmer
By. (Pitman's Technical Primer Series.) Pp. x + 110. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1921.) 2s. 6d. net.
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Industrial and Power Alcohol . Nature 109, 577 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109577a0
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