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THE gradual exhaustion of the more easily mined seams of coal in Great Britain, and other factors which are resulting in increasing costs of mining and transport, are combining to focus attention on the necessity of employing more scientific methods in the preparation and utilisation of coal. In coal carbonisation, the main object of the coke oven is to produce coke possessing the special properties required by the metallurgical industries; whereas the chief aim of the gas industry has been to manufacture gas of the quality required for domestic and industrial purposes, and coke as a secondary product has not received the attention it deserves. The possibility of producing coke with the qualities desirable in a solid smokeless fuel for domestic use is now being realised, and coke quality and structure are consequently being given much more consideration.
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PARKER, A. Coal Blending. Nature 118, 607 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118607a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/118607a0