Making an Asset of Coal Dust
Dear Aunt Daisy, I am sending you a method of using up coal dust very satisfactorily indeed. It is taken from a newspaper cutting. I used very fine lignite coal dust, on a cold, wet Sunday afternoon, and it burned beautifully, and coked up like a gassy coal. I made the fire of wood, a few pieces of coal, and then very care fully put on the dry dust, heavily sprinkled with soda. In half an hour we had a glorious red fire. As soon as my husband saw how the soda made the coal dust burn, he said, "You must send that to Aunt Daisy in case she hasn’t got it."-Miramar. Here is the method:-To make coal dust burn bright and clear, fill the shovel with dust, sprinkle all over it a little fine soda. Empty the shovelful of coal dust very gently on to the fire. Never throw coal dust on violently-it either falls all over the place, or so deadens the fire that it rarely recovers. The "soda-dust’" will give out a bright fire which not only lasts but uses up wasteful dust.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 314, 29 June 1945, Page 25
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192Making an Asset of Coal Dust New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 314, 29 June 1945, Page 25
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