Word: bergius
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Coal-Oil. When Dr. Friedrich Bergius of Heidelberg, Germany, runs a ton of soft coal, or even lignite, through heated chambers and squirts hydrogen gas at the oozing tar that runs from the coal, he gets 140 gallons of heavy oil. About one-third of this consists of aromatic hydrocarbons, suitable for "no knock" motor fuel. The rest is gas oil, lubricating oil, fuel...