Natural gas is processed through several steps, including the use of catalysts, pressure and high heat, until it eventually emerges as liquid methanol. (See References 3) As of 2011, natural gas is the cheapest methanol precursor, but other high-carbon feedstocks such as coal can be employed to create liquid methanol.
The Three Musketeers. by Alexandre Dumas, translated by Richard Pevear. 704pp, Penguin Classics, Â£25. As a small boy back in the 1960s, I dreamed of being either a racing driver, a game-park warden or a musketeer.
Muckrakers were investigative reporters and writers during the Progressive Era (1890-1920) who wrote about corruption and injustices in order to make changes in society. The term was actually coined by the progressive president Theodore Roosevelt in his 1906 speech The Man With the Muck Rake referring to a passage in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.