Empire Stove

Skreiberg, O., Hustad, J.E., Karlsvik, K. (1996) Empirical NOfModeliing and Experimental Result from Wood Stove Combustion. 4 Int. Conference on Developments in Thermochemical Biomass Conversion, 21 February 1996, Banff, Canada. 

CAS 12286-66-7 Empirical C16H14N4O7S Properties Sp.gr. 1.4 oil absorp. 40 g/100 g Uses Pigment for paints/coatings (emulsion pants, air-diying enamels, stoving enamels, lacquers), textile printing, inks (offset, gravure, flexo), leather cloth, aq. emulsions... 

Benjamin Thompson (North Woburn, Massachusetts, 26 March 1753-Auteuil, nr. Paris, 21 August 1814), a Royalist American, contemporary of Benjamin Franklin, was for a time in the service of the Elector Palatine of Bavaria, who in 1792 created him Count Rumford of the Holy Roman Empire. He is known for important researches on the nature of heat and as the founder of the Royal Institution in London. Rumford was especially interested in the economic production of heat, and invented several ingenious fire-places and stoves." He expressed doubts on the caloric theory in 1797. In Munich he noticed the large amount of heat evolved in the boring of cannon, and from experiments with a blunt borer in a cylinder of metal turned by horses he concluded that it is extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments except it be motion . Rumford published other important researches. ... 

The first of these elements used for joining was Pb. Lead was used to join copper (Cu) by the Mesopotamians around 3000 bc because of its availability in the region as well as its low melting temperature (327 °C) that was compatible with wood-fired stoves and kilns. Tin was exploited around 1900 bc by the Celtic and Gaul cultures of Northern Europe where ore deposits were plentiful. It was not long before alloys of Sn and Pb, that is, the soft solders were used by these cultures to join Cu or Cu-alloy tools and cooking utensils. The Romans, whose empire extended into Northern Europe, learned of Sn and Pb-Sn alloys and subsequently used them to seal the Pb liners of their aqueducts. 

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