Charcoal and Charcoal Burning (Shire Library)

By D.W. Kelley

Book Overview

This book describes the rapid growth of the charcoal industry up to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and how the emphasis of development changed to the production and refining of charcoal's by-products - acetic acid, tar and wood spirit - for the textile industry and the rapidly growing chemical industries.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0852637314
• ISBN13: 9780852637319
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Shire
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.1" x 5.9"