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 1932.    KOETSCHAU, R.  [Nature and Occurrence of Natural Petroleums, Their Chemical Relationship to Each Other and to the Distillation Products of Coal.]  Brennstoff-Chem., vol. 8, 1927, pp. 273-288; Chem. Abs., vol. 22, 1928, p. 1464.

       Review of the literature on chemical composition of petroleum and a discussion of the theories on its origin.  A possible connection is assumed between the formation of natural petroleum and of synthetic petroleum from gas by the Fischer-Tropsch process.