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There was a post the other day on Kos about a promising new source for hydrocarbon fuels from biomass. On further examination, biomass was only part of the feed, the rest being sugars and starches. The poster and a couple of others took offense when I pointed out that cellulose is [...]
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Last time we talked about the gas laws mainly, and I realize that this is not exactly a pageturner of a topic, but is important for two reasons: to have a basic familiarity with how gases behave, and to show that these concepts were worked out, in some cases, over two centuries [...]