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XI.—Graphical Classification of Carbonaceous Minerals: The Mineral Oils

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Henry Briggs
Henry Briggs
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University of Edinburgh
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In two previous communications to the Society (Briggs, 1931, 1932), the graphical method, based on the ultimate analysis, was applied to the classification of carbonaceous minerals, and particularly to the elucidation of the process of “development” of those minerals—a process that involves the progressive histolysis of the primitive plant offal, and a progressive enrichment in carbon and impoverishment in oxygen of the mineral substances produced from it. Almost entirely, attention in those papers was directed to the solid minerals, namely, to the constituents of common coals and to the species severally known as torbanites, oil shales, cannels, and sub-cannels. On the present occasion, however, interest is concentrated on the petroleums. My purpose is to ascertain to what extent the graphical method is able to throw light on the origin and manner of development of the oils.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 54 , 1935 , pp. 115 - 120
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1935

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