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 1761.    ---------------.  [KING, J. G.]  Oil and Coal After the War.  Petroleum (London), vol. 6, No. 12, 1943, pp. 180-181, 188.

        Since the oils produced in the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis are mainly straight chain in character, the process has special significance in that the diesel-oil fraction has a high cetane value (120) and the oils are most amenable to cracking and chemical reconstruction.  The significance of this process in postwar planning is, however, only partly in the field of fuel and is perhaps mainly centered in its value as a means of producing those olefins that are the starting point in the manufacture of so many of the new raw materials wanted in the chemical industry.  It is, moreover, the only process from which satisfactory lubricating oil can be synthesized.