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    The Frasch process is a method to extract sulfur from underground deposits by taking advantage of the low melting point of sulfur. It is the only industrial...
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    Herman Frasch [or Hermann Frasch] (December 25, 1851 – May 1, 1914) was a chemist, mining engineer and inventor known for his work with petroleum and...
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  • Frasch may refer to: Frasch, the North Frisian language Herman Frasch (1851–1914), German mining engineer and inventor Frasch process, a method of extracting...
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    between crushing and grinding) Frasch process – for extracting molten sulfur from the ground Froth flotation, flotation process – separating minerals through...
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    corporation founded in 1896 by the famous inventor Herman Frasch. It utilized the Frasch Process to extract previously inaccessible sulfur deposits located...
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    underground deposits in Louisiana and Texas. The highly successful Frasch process was developed to extract this resource. In the late 18th century, furniture...
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    logistics, refining, storage and shipping operations to support its Frasch Process sulphur mine at Lake Grande Ecaille, located 10 miles west of the town...
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  • patent-holder Herman Frasch had enjoyed a monopoly on the process. The Bryan Mound salt dome just south of Freeport became the second Frasch sulphur mine in...
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    Sicily, which had a near-monopoly on sulfur prior to development of the Frasch process for mining sulfur from salt domes. Sulfur mining in Indonesia is sometimes...
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    salt domes can contain deposits of native sulfur (recovered by the Frasch process). They can also contain deposits of metals, sodium salts, nitrates,...
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    of many lives. In 1890, the German immigrant Herman Frasch invented and patented the Frasch Process of mining sulfur, using concentric pipes to pump superheated...
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    operations as a result of the spread of the new mining method, the Frasch process, that had spread to the United States, which, by drastically lowering...
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    oil-bearing formations, such as salt domes, where it can be mined using the Frasch process Electric power stations burning coal with flue gas desulfurization produce...
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    Sicilian method (category Mineral processing)
    of recovering sulfur from elemental deposits until replaced by the Frasch process. Most of the world's sulfur was obtained this way until the late 19th...
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  • the Franklin stove, the glass harmonica Herman Frasch (1851–1914), Germany / U.S. – Frasch process (petrochemistry), Paraffin wax purification Ian Hector...
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  • slowly, until the last pyrite mining in the US stopped in 2001. The Frasch process was first used in 1894 in Louisiana, and in the early 1900s came into...
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  • in the Big Hill salt dome near Matagorda, Texas, using the Frasch process. With the Frasch method, the underground sulphur deposit has superheated water...
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  • coordination in biological systems Herman Frasch (1851–1914), German mining engineer and inventor, pioneered the Frasch process Bertram Fraser-Reid (1934–2020)...
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    stayed open as long as it did because of the introduction of the modern Frasch process of sulphur extraction. Since the 1980s, the land in the mining areas...
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    relationship with Feargus B. Squire and Herman Frasch, acquiring a three-tenths interest in the Frasch Process. All three then entered into a 50-50 agreement...
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    still held infrequently. From 1960 to 2000, sulfur was mined by the Frasch process from the caprock of a salt dome at the Main Pass 299 mine, offshore...
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  • "skunk oil". Between 1885 and 1887, Frasch discovered that mixing copper oxide with the oil during the distilling process would remove the sulphur content...
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    1832 and 1836, sulphur production doubled. Until the invention of the Frasch process in 1891, sulphur extracted from volcanic rock in Sicily by the Sicilian...
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    Herman Frasch was hard at work on a process to remove sulfur from sour crude oil. Solar Refining Co. was founded to utilize the process Frasch developed...
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    another company, mining sulfur, and because it held the patent on the Frasch process it too monopolized a profitable industry. In 1894, by then a very wealthy...
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  • 1971. The Frasch process is used to exploit sulfur from underground deposits at depths of 120 metres (390 ft)–200 metres (660 ft). This process depends...
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    companies involved in the mining of sulfur using the Frasch process. With the increase of the Claus process for extracting sulfur from natural gas and oil,...
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  • Efferocytosis (category Cellular processes)
    doi:10.1378/chest.129.6.1673. PMID 16778289. Gardai SJ, McPhillips KA, Frasch SC, Janssen WJ, Starefeldt A, Murphy-Ullrich JE, et al. (October 2005)....
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    01764.x. ISSN 1365-2982. PMC 3173572. PMID 21851506. Cerritelli, Francesco; Frasch, Martin G.; Antonelli, Marta C.; Viglione, Chiara; Vecchi, Stefano; Chiera...
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  • doi:10.3109/00365517309082411. PMID 4687773. Hanson, CW; Marshall BE; Frasch HF; Marshall C (January 1996). "Causes of hypercarbia with oxygen therapy...
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