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Re: Question from my 78 year old Dad
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Posted by Jim WI on December 09, 2002 at 10:57:27 from (63.161.86.254):
In Reply to: Question from my 78 year old Dad posted by Jim on December 07, 2002 at 07:31:49:
IIRC, this makes use of a process called "destructive distillation". I remember doing an experiment in high school chemistry where we heated a chunk of wood in a container with a small outlet and then collected the gases coming off of the wood in a test tube. The gases in the test tube could then be ignited with a match. I've seen pictures of some of the automotive applications from the WWII time frame. I suspect the reason it didn't really take off in the US was that our gas rationing program was done more to conserve rubber than gas.
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