3830.  ----- [VIDSTRAND, E. H., HULGREN, H. B., AND HULTGREN, N. F.] [Synthetic Benzine.] French Patent 457,174, Apr. 26, 1913. Chem. Abs., vol. 9, 1915, p. 148.

Manufacturing a combustible liquid like benzine by heating hydrocarbons of the CH₄, ethylene, or acetylene series (with the addition of H₂) in the electric are furnace, at least to 2,000°. Such gases may be obtained, Such gases may be obtained, for example, by the dry distillation of turf. A mixture of CO and CO₂ with H₂ serves the same purpose. The product has a sp. gr. of 0.723, b. at 85.5°, and has a constitution between that of the paraffins and olefins.