The Story of a Piece of Coal eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 140 pages of information about The Story of a Piece of Coal.

The Story of a Piece of Coal eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 140 pages of information about The Story of a Piece of Coal.

Calamites, extinct horsetails
Carbolic acid
Carboniferous formation, the
Cardiocarpum, fossil fruit
Carelessness of miners
Causes of earth-movements
Changes of level
Charcoal as a disinfectant
Chemistry of a gas-flame
Chinese coals
Clanny’s safety-lamp
Clayton’s experiments with gas
Clay, regularity in deposition of
Club-mosses, great height of fossil
Coal-dust, danger from
Coal formed in large lakes or closed seas
Coal formation, geological position of
Coal formed by escape of gases
Coal-mine, the
Coal not the result of drifted vegetation
Coal-period, climate of
“Coal-pipes”
Coal-plants, classification of
Coal-seam, each, a forest growth
Coals of non-carboniferous age
Coal, vegetable origin of
Coke
“Cole”
“Condensers”
Cones of Lepidodendra
Conifers in coal-measures
Current-bedding in sandstone

D.

Davy-lamp
Dangers of benzene
Darwin on the Chonos Archipelago
Diamonds, how made artificially
Disintegration of vegetable substances
Disproportion in relative thickness of coal and coal-measures

E.

Early use of coal
Effects of an explosion
Encrinital limestone
Equiseta
“Essence de mirbane”
European coal-fields
Evelyn on the use of coal
Experiments illustrating fossilisation

F.

Filling retorts by machinery
Firedamp
Fire, mines on
First light oils
First record of an explosion
Flashing-point of oil
Flooding of pits
Fog and smoke
Foraminifera
Fossil ferns
Fructification on fossil-ferns
Furnace, ventilating

G.

Gas, coal
Gasholder, the
Gas, house, constituents of
Glossopteris
Graphite
“Green Grease”

H.

Hannay, of Glasgow
Heavy oils
Humboldt’s safety-lamp
Hydraulic Main

I.

Impurities in house-gas
Indian coals
Insertion of rootlets of stigmaria
Insufficiency of modern forest growths
Ireland denuded of coal-beds
Iron, supplies of

L.

Lepidodendra Lepidostrobi Lignite London lit by gas

M.

Mammoth trees
Marco Polo
Marsh gas
Medium oils
Metamorphism of coal by igneous agency
Methods of ventilation
Mountain limestone
Murdock’s use of gas
Mussel beds

N.

Napthalin
Neuropteris
Newcastle, charters to
Nitro-benzole

O.

Objections to use of coal
Oils from coal and lignite
Oil-wells of America
Olefiant gas
Orthoceras

P.

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