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 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 Gulf area. The company later expanded its product range to cover a broad spectrum of other industrial and medical gases. In 1974 Kuwait Industrial Gases Corporation (KIGC) was established to cater essentially to the expanding petroleum industry and was therefore located in the Shuaiba Industrial Area in proximity to the main refineries and petroleum installations. Later, in 1977 it diversified geographically to the United