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IN a country which had formed the habit of assessing power in terms of coal-burning in a furnace or under a boiler, the decline in the coal mining industry and the rapid expansion in the use of the internal combustion engine are two facts about which chemists and engineers have been thinking for a long time. Interest in the production of petrol from coal is now nation-wide; it has been stimulated by the hope?indeed by the conviction?that this branch of chemical industry will appreciably help British coal mining to surmount its financial difficulties, bringing work and wages into many homes that have long known neither; and it has been maintained by the success which Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., has already achieved in placing the operation on a commercially promising basis. For that reason alone, and apart from its obvious technical interest, Mr. Kenneth Gordon's lecture on November 21 to the Institute of Fuel, entitled “The Development of Coal Hydrogenation by Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.”, deserves to be regarded as an event of more than passing significance.
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Hydrogenation of Coal. Nature 136, 855–857 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136855a0
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