Word: naphtha
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wall of solid coal at the end of the tunnel where the coal is actually extracted. During the four-mile journey, the beams from the lamps on the miners' hats bore through the darkness, picking up eerie, abandoned passageways, diggings of another day. The foreman carries a small naphtha lamp; if the lamp's flame flares up, it indicates the presence of flammable methane gas and the threat of fire; if it goes out, it means that the oxygen has been depleted to dangerous levels. Each man has clipped to his belt a small canister with an hour...
Antwerp's greatest expansion is in chemicals. Belgium's own Solvay is putting up a polyethylene plant. The U.S.'s Phillips Petroleum is joining with Belgian partners in a $190 million naphtha plant and with France's Rhone-Poulenc in another venture. Union Carbide has $40 million in construction under way; next month a $20 million Monsanto plant will go into operation. With all this, four major U.S. banks have branched into Antwerp in the past year...
...Many pesticides come into contact with human skin where they are readily absorbed (e.g. naphtha used for mothballing). The government has no effective control over this danger...
...Chris-Craft the sale marks the end of a family saga that began in 1894 when Chairman Smith's grandfather installed a naphtha-gas engine in a homemade rowboat and began selling rides...
...headline over an article on President William C. Pels of Bennington reads "Fels's Naptha" [July 6]. Maybe that's the way they spell Naphtha at small, rural, private Bennington, but it wasn't the way they spelled it at small, rural, private Bryn Mawr. Have I caught TIME napphing...