Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1919 — Petroleum Substitute. [ARTICLE]

Petroleum Substitute.

One Spanish substitute for petroleum for miners’ lamps contains 77.5 per cent of 96 degree per cent alcohol and 22.5 per-cent of benzol. This lamp fuel seems to have met with same approval. but an objection is its low effi-' ciency, the lamp usfhg it developing only 77 per cent of the illuminating power of the standard petroleum lamp. A new mixture designed to yield this brilliancy is made up of 62 per cent by volume of the alcohol, 16 of benzol, 7.5 of rectified turpentine and 14.5 of fusel oil.