Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Heating Power of Wyoming Coal and Oil: With a Description of the Bomb Calorimeter
The value of a fuel depends upon the amount of heat that can be obtained from it. Although we buy it by weight, it is not matter we want, but energy. Everyone who uses fuel either for heat or power needs to know what is the greatest amount of heat that can be obtained from the kind of fuel used. He can then tell whether he 18 getting that which is the best quality for the price paid and also whether he is getting as large a proportion as he should of the total heat.
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