Word: benzole
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...acrid, evil-smelling substance commonly known as fusel oil, and is a comparatively unimportant member of the alcohol family. Industrial alcohol is ethyl alcohol denatured by the addition of methyl alcohol to make it unfit for beverage purposes. There are other denaturants, such as sulphuric ether, turpentine, benzol and animal oil, but methyl is generally employed. Thus when unskillful persons unsuccessfully attempt to take the denaturing out of denatured alcohol, the familiar phenomena of wood alcohol poisoning usually result. Ethyl alcohol can theoretically be made from any sugar, cellulose or starch-Germany, for instance, has a potato-alcohol industry...
During a trial flight of the Count Zeppelin the Blau gas was alternated repeatedly with the ordinary mixture of benzol and gasoline without causing the slightest trouble to the new type Maybach motors, the first time in the history of aerial navigation that a gas had been used as fuel. "Our passengers," said Dr. Eckener, "did not even know that we had been running on gas until I told them...
...steel mills now make cement out of their "slag," which was formerly thrown away as waste. Gases arising from coal-burning, instead of being allowed to escape, are now distilled in by-product coke ovens, and yield petrol, benzol and other derivative products employed in explosives, dyes...
...Deliveries of benzol, tar, sulphate of ammonia, creosote, etc., to be subject to a special arrangement...
Lecointe climbed for an hour and twenty minutes in a Nieuport-Delace plane with Hispano motor 454. It took him 35 minutes to coast back to Earth. He wore electric-heated fur clothing, breathed from an oxygen bottle above 5,000 meters, used benzol fuel for the first 6,000 meters and above that gasoline. His thermometer broke at 40° below zero, Fahrenheit, and a broken oxygen bottle robbed him of one or two thousand meters more. He said: "If the weather's fair I may try it again...