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Gas

Gas Act wherein 'gas' has been defined as 'a matter of gaseous state which pre-dominantly consist of methane'. It would certainly include natural gas also … prescribed illumi-nating standard. Later, when the incandescent mantle came into use and also the use of gas for cooking and heating increased, a prescribed calorific standard superseded the illuminating standard, as the latter had become of subsidiary … represents the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 lb. Of water through 1'F.; calorific value of gas is defined as the number of British thermal units (gross) produced by the combustion of 1