Chemical compounds of radioactive elements

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1912
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 64 KB
• Volume: 174
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(12)90903-5

✦ Synopsis

Twenty Years' Progress in the Use of Acetylene. V. B. LEWES. (Times Eng. Supple., July 3, I912.)--Large quantities of acetylene can be safely stored in steel cylinders filled with porous briquettes soaked with acetone and then charged with acetylene under pressure. This dissolved acetylene is largely used on the European continent for railway lighting, and it has many advantages over other illuminants for lighting motor vehicles, for buoys, and for coastal lights. One important development is the use of acetylene in oxy-acetylene burners for autogenous welding; and another ap.plication, which promises to considerably increase the demand, ~s the use of acetylene in self-starting devices for motor vehicles.