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Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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tric Company and areof special interest to our readers, not only from their scientific value, but, also, becausethey describe a process which may be said to have actually owed its discovery to theexigencies of war conditions.—Editor Pacific Service Magazine.) DURING the early months of the year1918 the Gas Defense Division,Chemical Warfare Service, U. S. Army,laid plans for increasing the output ofgas defense chemicals and apparatus inthis country. One of the most importantcommodities manufactured by the Chem-ical Warfare Service was charcoal. Thischarcoal is not the ordinary kind that oneencounters in lifes daily routine, but is a highly developed chemical product.Nor can all classes of carbonaceous ma-terials be used for the production of thischarcoal, as the resulting product mustpossess infinitesimal pores, thereby pre-senting a large surface for contact withtoxic gases. After extensive investigations hadbeen carried out by this branch of thearmy, it was determined that such ma-
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Offlce building at th^ Potrero Oas Works. The second fl^or was used hy the Chemical Warfare Servicefor a headquarters during the period of charcoal manufacture. 304 Pacific Service Magazine

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