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In this video, Fran Scott explains fractional distillation - the separation of crude oil into fractions. Crude oil is a finite resource; petrol and other fuels are produced from it using fractional ...

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THIS book is a new and amplified edition of the author's well-known treatise on “Fractional Distillation,” first published in 1903. Prof. Sydney Young is an acknowledged authority on the subject on ...

IN his preface Prof. Young says that he wrote this book in the hope that the solution of the difficulties of fractional distillation might be rendered easier. He has written an eminently practical ...