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THE daily discussion of ‘oil sanctions' will have served a useful purpose if it brings home to the publicthe perilous position of Great Britain in regard to oil supplies in time of war. Actually the London omnibuses alone consume more fuel than the total quantity of benzole produced by coke ovens and gas works, whilst apart from the new has been supplemented recently by a technics] paper issued by the Fuel Research Board describing the earlier investigations of Bergius and the action of the Department, and its connexion with other bodies interested in the subject prior to the advent of I.C.I. This forms a valuable historical survey.
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Coal Hydrogenation in Great Britain. Nature 137, 690–692 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137690a0
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