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    <title>Preliminary report on the operations of the fuel-testing plant of the United States Geological survey at St. Louis, Mo., 1905</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Holmes, J. A. (Joseph Austin)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1859-1915</namePart>
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    <publisher>Govt. Print. Off.</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1906</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent> 240, iv p. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">Joseph A. Holmes in charge.</note>
  <note>Subject series: A, Economic geology, 79; E, Chemistry and physics, 48.</note>
  <note>Issued also as House doc. no. 838, 59th Cong., 1st sess.</note>
  <note>"Literature relating to peat and its utilization" : p. 11-15.</note>
  <note>"Partial bibliography of briquetting" : p. 48-52.</note>
  <note>Contents.- Introduction, by J. A. Holmes.- Field work, by E. W. Parker and J. Shober Burrows.- Work of the chemical laboratory, by N. W. Lord.- Washing tests, by John D. Wick.- Steaming tests, by L. P. Breckenridge.-Producer-gas tests, by Robert H. Fernald.- Coking tests, by A. W. Belden.-Briquetting tests, by J. A. Holmes.- Detailed report of tests.</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Coal</topic>
    <topic>Testing</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">TP328 .A5 1906b</classification>
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      <title>Bulletin ; no. 290</title>
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