Abstract
IN the preface of this work the authors or editors, one of whom is a consulting chemical engineer of New York and formerly a director of the Mellon Institute, and the other the assistant director of that Institute, state that “they have attempted to condense into a series of specially prepared chapters the fruits of the experience of specialists, thereby placing in the hands of manufacturers, engineers, and chemists a composite book representing authoritative accounts of the fuels now regarded as technically important in the United States.”
American Fuels.
By Dr. Raymond Foss Bacon William Allen Hamor. (Mellon Institute Technochemical Series.) In 2 vols. Vol. 1. Pp. ix + 628. Vol. 2. Pp. vi + 629 1257. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1922.) 60s.
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COBB, J. American Fuels. Nature 111, 835–837 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111835a0
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