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IN the sympathetic notice in NATURE of October 18, 1917, of the first report of the Special Committee on Alcohol Fuel and Engines of the Australian Commonwealth Advisory Council of Science and Industry attention is directed to the part that benzol, obtained from the distillation of coal, may play, after the war, as a substitute for petrol. Undoubtedly in Great Britain very large quantities of this fuel will be available for peaceful purposes, but in Australia very small quantities of it will be produced.
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LYLE, T. Alcohol Fuel and Engines. Nature 100, 504 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/100504d0
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