Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1887 — Your Ton of Coal. [ARTICLE]

Your Ton of Coal.

Someone has thus figured on the ingredients of a ton of coal. Besides gas, a ton of coal "will .-yield 1,500 pounds of coke, 20 gallons of ammonia water and 140 pounds of coal tar. Destructive distillation of the coal tar gives 09.0 pounds of pitch, 17 pornds of creosote, ll pounds of heavy o Is, 9.5 pounds of naphtha yellow, n. 3 pounds of naphthaline, 4.70 pounds of naphthol, 2.25 pounds of alizarine, 2.4 pounds of solvent naphtha, 1.5 pounds if phenol, 1.2 pounds of aurine, 1.1 pounds of analine, 0.77 pound of toludine, 0.46 pound of anthracine and 0.9 pound of toluene. The steam-power of Great Britain is estimated to perform the work of more than 400,000,000 able bodied men —which must nearly represent the labor capacity of the entire human race without the aid of machinery.