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September, 1910 



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Its Manufacture 

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 Its Industrial Use 



The Cost of Manufacturing Denaturized Alcohol In Germany and 

 German Methods of Denaturization are discussed by Consul-General 

 Frank H. Mason in Scientific American Supplement 1550. 



The Use, Cost and Efficiency of Alcohol as a Fuel for Gas Engines 



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valuable statistics being gi\en of the cost of manufacturing alcohol from 

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French Methods of Denaturization constitute the subject of a good 



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How Industrial Alcohol is Made and Used is tnid very fully and 



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The most complete treatise on the Modern Manufacture of Alcohol, 



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In Supplements 1607, 1608, 1609 we publish a digest Of the rules 

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 the manufacture and denaturation of tax free alcohol. 



A comparison of the Use of Alcohol and Gasoline in Farm Engines 



is giien in Scientific Amejican Supptonents 1654 and 1635 by 

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The Sources of Industrial Alcohol, that is the Farm Products from 

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Alcohol in the Arts and in the Home are discussed. 



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