The water penetrating below formed there a mixture of naphtha and watery vapours, and this mixture issued through fissures to the cold parts of the earth's crust.
The neighbourhood of Baku and the whole of the Caucasus near the naphtha districts are full of such volcanoes, which from time to time are in a state of eruption.
The situation of naphtha at the foot of mountain chains is the principal argument in my hypothesis.
It is thus preserved from remote geological periods up to the present day, compressed and dissolved under the pressure of the gases which burst out in places formingnaphtha fountains.
Already we see that benzene, toluene, solvent naphtha, and burning naphtha are separated from them.
Up to this time, be it remembered, that chemists had not found out what this naphtha contained.
The hydrocarbons of still higher boiling-point which remain in the still are used as burning naphtha for lamps.
But science soon laid hands on the materials furnished by the tar-distiller, and the naphtha was one of the first products which was made to reveal the secret of its hidden treasures to the scientific investigator.
After using the patterns for paint stamping they should be washed thoroughly withnaphtha until the perforations are all perfectly clear.
By this time showmen and merrymakers, startled out of the neighbouring tents by the explosion, as bees from their hives, were running to and fro with lanterns and naphtha flares, seeking for the victims.
The output of coal in the Donetz basin and of naphtha in the Baku region has increased, and the decreased demand for fuel owing to the diminished production has somewhat lowered the prices of naphtha.
In the little town of Welun peasants poured naphtha on the house of a Jew and put fire to it, burning a large family.
While kerosene requires a high temperature for combustion, it is closely related to other products of coal oil, such as naphtha and gasoline, which become inflammable at a low heat and are therefore very dangerous.
The naphtha launch was chained and padlocked to the dock, but using an oar Tom burst the chain.
Ned sternly, as he saw one young fellow about to scramble into the naphtha boat.
Tom speeded the naphtha craft to its limit, and, fortunately for those in danger, it was a fast boat.
Then more rescue boats came up, but those in the naphtha craft, and Ned's smaller one, refused to be transferred, and remained with our friends until safely landed at the dock.
It has been also supposed that naphtha and petroleum are the product of coals decomposed either by the fire of volcanos, by the subterranean combustion of coal itself, or by the decomposition of pyrites.
The portion of potassium produced, may be got rid of, by digesting the alloy for a few days in some naphtha or oil of turpentine contained in an open vessel.
Wells are also dug in that neighbourhood, in which the naphtha is collected.
For the rock was pitch-naphtha which would not Allow them to stir e'en a stitch, And seated in concert, they could not Rise up above concert pitch.
In love or in turning a penny Always study the field of your luck; In petroleum and naphtha full many Ere now have been terribly 'stuck.
There is,' they say, 'easy gradation from the smaller Salses to the ordinary naphtha or petroleum springs.
Here a vast silent throng of human beings stood expectantly in groups, their faces illuminated by the naphtha flares which had been erected here and there about the long-abandoned pithead.
Her face, framed in a motor bonnet and lit by the glare of a naphtha light, looked absurdly round and childish, just as it had done upon a dim and distant morning in Snayling Church.
Brings the smell of naphtha from those works half a mile away.
There has been an accident, as we supposed, at the naphtha works, and a quantity of it has floated down the stream and into our dam.
For remarks respecting the naphtha of Persia, and the universal fire of the followers of Zoroaster, see the article on Naphtha.
It will be sufficient to remark, that naphtha or rock oil is a yellow or brownish bituminous fluid, of a strong, penetrating odour, and so light as to float on spirits of wine.
The naphtha districts, in Persia, furnish this gas in abundance.
The name by which Cinnamus call the Greek fire, corresponds with the locality where naphtha was found, between the Tigris and the Caspian sea.
It is found in the neighbourhood of the celebrated naphtha springs, some of which form a mouth of 8 or 10 feet diameter.
In naphtha districts, the quantity of inflammable air is so great, that it is used for fuel.
Medea, and according to the etymology, naphthawas signified.
Naphtha is obtained of several qualities by suffering it to remain in pits or reservoirs.
Naphtha in contact with red hot iron glows with a lambent flame at a rarefaction of thirty times, though its flame ceases at an atmospheric rarefaction of six.
The Holy Fire of the latter is nothing more than the inflamed carburetted hydrogen gas, which comes from the naphtha ground at Baku.
The reason it is not quotable under the name of benzine, therefore, is because it has to be reduced to naphtha before it is marketable in any extensive quantity.
We have often been asked the difference between benzine and naphtha, many people wanting to know whether naphtha didn't include benzine, or whether it wasn't the same thing under a marketable name.
A prominent refiner says that benzine is the first product that arises from the process of refining crude oil, and bears the same relation to naphtha that that distillate does to refined oil.
Cloth prepared with paraffin, balata gum, the gum of the asclet pias or milkweed, naphtha solution of the dried pulp of the bamboo berry, anhydrous aluminum soaps (see pp.
Traces of naphtha were observed near Salakh, but extensive boring operations in 1892 did not lead to any result.
Owing to its position at the junction of several routes, Kerkuk has a brisk transit trade in hides, Persian silks and cottons, colouring materials, fruit and timber; but it owes its principal importance to its petroleum and naphtha springs.
From the very moment that he first slept he seemed to be fighting, fighting with Budge Garside on a platform of creaking boards with a rope barrier round it, lit by hissing naphtha flares.
In general, these difficulties are largely overcome by the adoption of the naphtha motor engine, which has been brought to a state of considerable perfection in Great Britain and the United States.
As the Santa Fé Land Company owns a great diversity of land, they have used both the steam traction and the naphtha engines, and time will show which machine is to be recommended.
The price of naphtha is gradually decreasing in the Argentine Republic, and the oil wells of the country will probably make the cost of fuel even less by-and-by than it is to-day.
The naphtha engine is likewise used with great advantage for traction purposes.
Another cause of fire, which is of recent date, is the use of naphtha in lamps--a most ignitable fluid when mixed in certain proportions with common air.
A fountain of naphtha was playing in the centre of the room; round it were ranged soft divans, and the walls of the room were open on one side to an aviary in which the birds were chanting their artful chorus.
In America, where the water gas is mostly employed for illuminating purposes, at least part of the blowing-up gas is utilized for heating the apparatus in which the naphtha is volatilized and the vapours are "fixed" by superheating.
Close by, the naphtha which was poured out formed a large lake.
The most famous springs of naphtha are in the neighborhood of Baku, which furnish vast quantities, and there are also upward of thirty springs about Shamasky, both in the province of Schirwan.
The naphthaon being allowed to drain through slowly dissolved out the grease.
By the use of potassium chloride it was found possible to effect a separation with benzol and water, also with naphtha and water.
This acid in composition and general properties was very similar to that obtained by freezing the naphtha solution of the oil, and is probably a mixture of stearic and palmitic acids.
This naphtha solution was distilled; the naphtha passing off while grease remained--a dark oil having high specific gravity and remaining nearly solid at the ordinary temperature.
Benzol and naphthawere tried, instead of ether, but the results were less satisfactory.
To extract the oil from the wool, a fleece was put in a tall cylinder and naphtha poured on it.
A solution of the oil in naphtha was cooled to 15° C.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "naphtha" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
