A Practical Treatise On Coal Petroleum And Other Distilled Oils
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There is present, also, a peculiar volatile oil, which gives even to its purest pro- ducts an unpleasant smell. This might properly be called odorine, although it does not agree with the odorine of Un- verdorben. The bitumen of the Pitch Lake of Trinidad contains sul- phur, and sulphuretted hydrogen issues from the pit where the semi-liquid mineral is discharged from the earth. By distillation it also yields a whole series of hydro-carbon oils, some of which have been called naphtha, and repre-... sented as C 6 H 5 ; others C 20 H 16 . It is quite evident that bitumens and their distillates differ materially in their com- position, and therefore their value for the manufacture of illuminating oils, or for gas, can only be ascertained by 132 PRODUCTS OF BITUMEN. experiment. This bitumen yields 70 gallons of crude oil per ton of 2240 Ibs. The impurities in its first distillate are numerous. Among its soluble parts pyroxilic spirit and other products of the distillation of wood have been detected, giving evidence of the vegetable origin of the pitch.
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