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      <p ns="0" title="Old Kent Road Gas Works" snippet="...They can now make in twenty-four hours 7,000,000 cubic feet of gas, which &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;mean&lt;/span&gt;s that they can carbonise 700 tons of coal per day, and in winter this is ac&#10;" size="1683" wordcount="262" timestamp="2016-05-12T20:29:43Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="South Metropolitan Gas Company" snippet="...They can now make in twenty-four hours 7,000,000 cubic feet of gas, which &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;mean&lt;/span&gt;s that they can carbonise 700 tons of coal per day, and in winter this is ac&#10;" size="2163" wordcount="333" timestamp="2016-05-12T19:55:36Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Vauxhall Gardens Gas Works" snippet="...droche, the works (I can’t tell which ones he is talking about, or if he &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;mean&lt;/span&gt;s both or if he doesn’t realize that there were two works) were owned only&#10;" size="2627" wordcount="422" timestamp="2016-05-12T20:51:46Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="James Gibbs and Co. Chemical Manure Works" snippet="...phate of ammonia being added to some kinds of manure. The best practicable &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;mean&lt;/span&gt;s, so far as my knowledge extends, of preventing the escape of offensive eff&#10;" size="3952" wordcount="545" timestamp="2016-05-12T20:11:13Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Sulphuric Acid" snippet="...ombustion of sulphur and the oxidation of the resulting sulphurous acid by &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;mean&lt;/span&gt;s of nitrous vapours.” &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; General Medical Council of Great Britain,  &#039;&#039;&#10;...which form it allays the vomiting which often occurs in fevers, when other &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;mean&lt;/span&gt;s fail.”&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Savory, 55&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&#10;" size="12591" wordcount="1826" timestamp="2016-09-08T18:22:57Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Aniseed" snippet="...Mediterranean and Southwest Asia. Anise oil is obtained from the fruits by &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;mean&lt;/span&gt;s of either steam distillation, or extracted by using supercritical carbon d&#10;" size="4047" wordcount="569" timestamp="2016-09-06T21:57:14Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Leech" snippet="...tutional disturbance about the face, leeches and purgatives, and the usual &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;mean&lt;/span&gt;s for subduing inflammation, may be resorted to.”&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Savory, 209&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&#10;" size="5053" wordcount="755" timestamp="2016-09-08T18:11:07Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Thames Street Gas Works" snippet="...s that of seeing work being done in the Meter House, and wondering what it &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;mean&lt;/span&gt;t. It was the installing of a governor - until then the pressure in the dist&#10;...The peculiarity of this lift was that it had no engine. It was driven, by &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;mean&lt;/span&gt;s of rather complicated gearing, by an engine connected with the exhausters.&#10;" size="5124" wordcount="878" timestamp="2016-05-12T20:47:34Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Alum" snippet="...ed alum can also be used to make an injection that can be administered &amp;quot;by &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;mean&lt;/span&gt;s of a female syringe.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Savory, 284&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&#10;" size="5300" wordcount="775" timestamp="2016-09-06T21:56:47Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Ordnance Wharf Tar &amp; Pitch Works" snippet="...ased at Iceland Wharf, at Old Ford on the Lea in Hackney, patented various &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;mean&lt;/span&gt;s of making sulphate of ammonia and sulphuric acid where he has been based f&#10;" size="6264" wordcount="1027" timestamp="2016-05-12T20:30:13Z" />
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