ONLY AN IMPRESSION OF HOTTER FIRE
^'i WELLINGTON, July 9. "On a wcll lighted Ihe tliese mater- ! ials will impart a colour to the flame I and finis give the impression of a hottcr i fire but reports ol: teehnieal officers of 1 the Scientific and Industrial Researeh, i defnntely state that the addition of such sulistanees to coal will not enable the coal to give out more lieat_ than vvould be obtained in ordinarv circumstanees, ' ' said the Ministcr of Sc.ientihe Industrial Researeh, Hon. I). G. Sulli j vau, tonight, when referring to the pre- ' senee on the market of preparations i elaiining to produce from coal "more lieat" and "a longev burn" from Icsa coal. Ile added that a number of these ; preparations had be.en examined fronv time to timo and he had been advised ; by his officers thatjthey had been shown j to consist mainly of eommon sah with ; small amounts of sodium carbonate, iron oxide or potassium permauganate f (Vondy's ervstals) He said he had 1 been informed tliat tests made on simi- ! lar products m Great Britain soine years ago, showed these preparations had no eileCt on the total radiation thrown into a room by tlic fire nor ipion ifs duration of bnrning nor upon a rise in temperature of the air in the room.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 July 1946, Page 8
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