Acetylene of 180°. Acetylene was discovered in 1836 by Edmund Davy, who identified it as a "new carburet of hydrogen". It was rediscovered in 1860 by French chemist Marcellin Berthelot, who coined the name "acétylène". Berthelot's empirical formula for acetylene (CH), as well as the alternative name "quadricarbure d'hydrogène" ("hydrogen quadricarbide"), were incorrect because chemists at that time used the wrong atomic mass for carbon (6 instead of 12). Berthelot was able to prepare this gas by passing vapours of organic compounds (methanol, ethanol, etc.) through a red-hot tube and collecting the effluent. He also found that acetylene was formed by
Kuwait Oxygen And Acetylene Company Arab Emirates by establishing Arabian Industrial Gases Co.(AIGCO) in Sharjah. A recent addition to the group in Kuwait is PWT (International), a contracting company formed in partnership with PWT SpA of Italy, in the field of automatic pipe welding technology. As the requirements of local economies grew, a number of ancillary trading companies and diversifications were established in both Kuwait and United Arab Emirates. Kuwait Oxygen And Acetylene Company Kuwait Oxygen and Acetylene Company (KOAC) was founded in 1953 by the late Salim Al-Huneidi to manufacture oxygen and acetylene. It was the first industrial gas manufacturing plant in the Persian