Re: xkcd: Good and Bad Ideas

Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

>
What about the processes of cracking longer hydrocarbon chains down to 8
carbon chains?

Houdry Process, 1937, although it didn't become usable until the fifties.
The ex-petrolero across the hall from my office says it was developed out of
German coal gasification research.
--scott


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