Robbins also uses a retort, or still, in which, like Moll, he heats coal tar and introduces the vapors from the retort into the chamber by a gradually increasing heat, lets off the water from the ...

Often the problem is market-driven, so it's important to realize where the coal tar is used. The bulk of it, roughly 75%, is sold as carbon pitch to the aluminum industry; the remainder is split ...

These colors, for there are many of them, have been prepared from the alkalies of coal tar by Messr3. W. Perkins and A. H. Church, two rising discoverers, and have been called by them nitroso ...